Erratum
for
Malin et al., J Clin Oncol 24 (4) 626-634.
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 24, No 12 (April 20), 2006: pp. 1966-a
© 2006 American Society of Clinical Oncology.
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.03.001
ERRATUM
The February 1, 2006, article by Malin et al entitled, "Results of the National Initiative for Cancer Care Quality: How Can We Improve the Quality of Cancer Care in the United States?" (J Clin Oncol 24:626-633, 2006) contained errors.
Table 3 misattributed the results for the following components of care: Timing, Receipt of treatment, Technical quality of treatment, and Respect for patient preferences. The corrected table has been reprinted in its entirety online. Correspondingly, in the Results section, the last sentence under the Quality of Care heading should have read, "Adherence to recommended care across the different components of care ranged from 57% (95% CI, 53% to 62%) for Respect for patient preferences and 59% (95% CI, 91% to 94%) for Referral to 93% (95% CI, 91% to 94%) for Pathology."
Tables 5 and 6 reported the unweighted results for individual MSA adherence rates, but should have given the weighted results for overall adherence and by MSA. The corrected tables have been reprinted in their entirety online. Correspondingly, in the Results section, the third sentence in the second paragraph under the Variation in Quality of Care Across NICCQ MSAs heading should have read, "For example, among patients treated with chemotherapy, the planned dose was consistent with published regimens for 58% of patients; however, this ranged from 29% to 74%, when weighted for hospital and patient nonresponse (P < .001)."
The online version has been corrected in departure from the print.
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