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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006 97(5):589-592; doi:10.1093/bja/ael272
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Modelling: a core technique in anaesthesia and critical care research

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As papers published in this1 and previous editions of the journal2–5 illustrate, modelling is assuming a more prominent role in mainstream anaesthesia and critical care research, becoming an accepted methodology and an ever-more useful part of the research process. This editorial explores the phenomenon of modelling and its uses and limitations. The integration of modelling in a structured way into research projects can enhance almost any project's potential. Modelling of anaesthesia, critical care and pain processes has matured into a robust discipline, and should be welcomed as another technique for addressing the problems of research in the 21st century.

What is modelling?

Modelling is the representation of a complex system, designed to facilitate understanding the system and to facilitate predictions of how it functions. Modelling is now a stand-alone methodology of similar value to laboratory investigations and clinical trials. Clinicians have become very good at clinical research, despite its shortcomings (e.g. subject . . . [Full Text of this Article]

What does modelling have to offer the researcher?

What new skills are required of researchers?

Hardman J. G.1,* and Ross J. J.2

1 University of Nottingham and Queen's Medical Centre Nottingham, UK
2 University of Sheffield and the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK

*E-mail: J.Hardman@nottingham.ac.uk


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