Factors affecting likelihood of applicants being offered a place in medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1996 and 1997: retrospective study

Correction for McManus et al., BMJ 317 (7166) 1111-1117.
BMJ 1999;318:94 ( 9 January )

Correction

Factors affecting likelihood of applicants being offered a place in medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1996 and 1997: retrospective study

Several errors occurred in this article by McManus (24 October, pp 1111-1117). It was not made clear that the whole of thefirst paragraph was a quotation from the 1986 paper by Horton(cited as reference 1). In table 2 the results for the Universityof Birmingham were wrong: the symbol $bullet$ should have appeared inthree additional rows $---$ "has made an insurance choice," "is female,"and "is from an ethnic minority." In figure 3 the odds ratio forBirmingham for 1997 should have been 1.526 (95% CI 1.1616 to 2.007),placing it between Glasgow and Leicester; the values for 1996are correct but in the wrong position (further details of thecorrected analysis are available at www.cvcp.ac.uk/chms/).