Corrections

Correction for Hutchison, BMJ 311 (7015) 1304.
Correction for Jadad, BMJ 311 (7007) 746.
Correction for Lee and Tan, BMJ 310 (6984) 941.
BMJ 1995;311:1508 (2 December)

CORRECTIONS

Corrections

Asking patients to write lists

A typesetting error occurred in the first letter in this cluster,by Alejandro R Jadad (16 September, p 746). The P value givenin the middle of the penultimate paragraph should read P<0.05[not P>/=0.05, as published].

Volume and mortality in coronary artery bypass grafting

An authors' error occurred in this letter by Harold S Luft andJennifer D Parker (11 November, p 1304-5). The y axis in thefigure was incorrectly labelled and shows the ratio of observedto expected mortality [not mortality adjusted for risk, as published].

Differences in progression of HIV infection between men andwomen

Owing to a typesetting error the table was omitted from thisletter by Matthias Egger and colleagues (8 April, p 941). Thetable, which is mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, is reproducedhere.

Details of subjects with disseminated cytomegalovirus infection among participants in Swiss HIV
cohort study who were infected by injecting drug use or heterosexual sex and were free of AIDS at
entry to study
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                                                Women (n=998)       Men (n=1469)     P value
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Characteristics of patients at entry:
 No (%) of injecting drug users                   534 (54)            1013 (69)       <0.001
 Mean (SD) age (years)                           28.9 (6.6)          31.0 (6.8)       <0.001
 Mean (SD) CD4 cell count (x10⁶/l)          504

 (34)            446 (33)        <0.001Disseminated cytomegalovirus disease:
 Total No of events                                  4                   12            0.2
 No of AIDS defining events                          0                    5            0.07
Relative rate (95% confidence interval)*     0.57 (0.18 to 1.83)                       0.34
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* From Cox regression, including all events; comparing women with men; and adjusting for category of
transmission, age, and CD4 cell count.

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