QUOTATION ACCURACY IN NEUROANESTHESIOLOGIC RESEARCH

A considerable number of quotational inaccuracies have been detected i n medical and surgical publications in the past. Our study investigate d the quotational accuracy of selected references of 32 scientific pub lications in six anesthesia journals referring to a single article pub lished in a 1973 issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia. In four (12.5%) articles, the quotation was in contradiction to the primary au thor's statement; in 15 (46.9%) articles, it was selective; and in 13 (40.6%) publications, it was in complete agreement with the important statements made in the original article. These results suggest that qu otational inaccuracy is also evident in neuroanesthesio-logic research . This problem deserves increased attention by authors as well as by r eviewers and journal editors.