Correction for vol. 316, p. 1031

Correction for Mays and Keen, BMJ 317 (7150) 66-69.
Correction for Evans, BMJ 316 (7137) 1031-1032.
BMJ 1998;317:786 ( 19 September )

Correction

Will the fudge on equity sustain the NHS into the next millennium?

In the article by Mays and Keen (4 July, pp 66-9) the third sentence in the first paragraph of the section about argumentsfor changes, contained an error. The sentence should have read:"Although it is difficult to believe when you are on an NHS waitinglist, people in the United Kingdom are more satisfied with healthcarearrangements than are people in the United States and Sweden,but less satisfied than people in Canada; these three countriesall spend more than the United Kingdom on health care.⁹"

Cardiac arrests outside hospital

The opening sentence of the editorial by Tom Evans (4 April, pp 1031-2) should have read: "Twenty five years after the originalepidemiological studies^{1 2} two thirds of all patients who die with acute coronary eventsstill do so before reaching a hospital (p 1065).³"