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Awareness and anaesthesia
Perth, Australia
* E-mail: grahamhocking@optusnet.com.au
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Editor—We were interested to read the study by Errando and colleagues1 describing their experience of awareness with recall (AWR). While the figure of 1% is undoubtedly concerning, there are multiple methodological problems with their paper, which may influence the results, and limit any conclusions to be drawn from it.
We note the audit commenced in 1995, but was not completed until 2001 after recruiting only 4001 patients. Does this reflect that the
Valencia, Spain
* E-mail: c.l.errando@carloserrando.com