Awards for papers published in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care,2023

The Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Jeanette Thirlwell Best Paper Award for 2023 has been awarded to Shania Liu, Dr Jennifer Stevens and colleagues for their paper entitled ‘Prevalence and predictors of long-term opioid use following orthopaedic surgery in an Australian setting: a multicentre, prospective cohort study’. ¹

The authors’ affiliations were:

Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;

Department of Pharmacy, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia;

School of Medicine, Notre Dame University, Sydney, Australia;

St Vincent’s Clinical School, UNSW, Kensington, Australia;

Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia;

Rural Clinical School Coffs Harbour Campus, University of New South Wales, Coffs Harbour, Australia;

St George Hospital, Kogarah, Australia; Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre, Ingham Institute, Liverpool, Australia;

South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;

Department of Pharmacy, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia;

Pharmacy Department, Caboolture, Kilcoy and Woodford Directorate, Metro North Health, Caboolture, Australia.

The 2023 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Emerging Investigator Award was not awarded.

The origin, history and judging of both these awards have been discussed in detail previously. ²

On behalf of all the Editors and the Editorial Board of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, the Australian Society of Anaesthetists, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society and the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists, congratulations to the Journal award winners for their paper published in 2023.