title: A personal history of the MASTER Trial and its link to the clinical trials network of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
abstract: The aim of this paper is to link the history of the Multicentre Australian Study of Epidural Anaesthesia in high risk surgery, the MASTER Trial, the first National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded multicentre randomised clinical trial in Australia led by anaesthetist researchers, and the decision of The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) to establish a clinical trials network, in 2003, to the success of contemporary researchers in Australia and New Zealand in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine.
authors.affiliation: Retired Anaesthetist and Clinical Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Western Australia.
authors.forename: J R A
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rigg
mesh_terms: D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural / Q000266:history*; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000266:history*; D000072077:Anesthetists / Q000266:history*; D001315:Australia; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009520:New Zealand; D014481:United States
keywords: MASTER Trial; anaesthesia; clinical trials network; history; outcomes; perioperative medicine; post-operative morbidity and mortality