Walton M, Smith-Merry J, Harrison R, et al. Using patients’ experiences of adverse events to improve health service delivery and practice: protocol of a data linkage study of Australian adults age 45 and above. BMJ Open 2014;4:e006599. An author of this paper, Christine Jorm, was inadvertently omitted and should be included as the second author. A revised contributors statement is given below.
Contributors Each of the listed authors made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and to the final approval of the version to be published as set out in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. MW, CJ, EM, RI, JSM & PK conceived and designed the research idea. All authors contributed to the drafting the article or revising it critically and gave final approval for the version submitted.