Publisher's Note

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) was published online Jan 9, 2006, with 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.” 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, 50% to 68%) for Referral to 93% (95% CI 91% to 94%) for Pathology.”

Tables 5 and 6 reported the unweighted results for the individual MSA adherence rates, and should have reported the weighted results for overall adherence and by MSA. 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).”

All corrections have been made as of March 22, 2006.