Correction: Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: A retrospective cohort study [BMC Med., 14, (2016) (198)] DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0748-6

MJ Spittal; DM Studdert; R Paterson; MM Bismark

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Correction: Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: A retrospective cohort study [BMC Med., 14, (2016) (198)] DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0748-6

MJ Spittal, DM Studdert, R Paterson, MM Bismark

BMC Medicine | BIOMED CENTRAL LTD | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-018-1030-x

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Abstract

The original article [1] contains a major error whereby all rates in Table 2 are mistakenly presented as 50% of their true values; this error was caused by a miscalculation in annualising the original values that represented the rates.

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