To our readers: an experiment in education.

摘要

In the lead article of the first issue of Anesthesiology, the respiratory physiologist Howard W. Haggard noted that medical progress requires research and dissemination of that research to medical practitioners and the public. Last month I wrote to our authors, who provide the research basis for this progress, regarding how we intend to better serve them. The purpose of this editorial is to describe changes in presentation of research and new educational content beginning with this issue of the journal designed to better disseminate the new knowledge that we publish. To paraphrase Dr. Haggard, practice-changing research cannot change practice if it is not read, and we want to increase the number of anesthesiologists who open and read the work published in Anesthesiology.