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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 100(3):285-287; doi:10.1093/bja/aem410
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Volume 100: The review article

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Medical and scientific literature is so extensive that no single clinician can keep up with anything more than a very small fraction of it. We often, therefore, rely on papers which are a synoptic, or a sort of summary, of the available literature. These papers are the review articles of journals and are designed to educate, or to answer carefully conceived important clinical questions. Their format can either be a review, meta-analysis, or scientific editorial. They should be based, like all other papers, on a clearly stated question, hypothesis, or objective and include a thorough critical assessment of the literature and be written in a logical manner. They act as a useful resource since they are a synthesis of information from all (should be, but often a selection) of the relevant literature on the particular subject—they save others from the time-consuming task of sifting through the published material. They inform . . . [Full Text of this Article]

N. R. Webster

Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Institute of Medical Sciences
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
UK

E-mail: n.r.webster@abdn.ac.uk


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