Confidential inquiry into quality of care before admission to intensive care

An authors’ error occurred in this paper by P McQuillan and colleagues (20 June, pp1853-8). Dr C H Collins, consultant anaesthetist at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, should have been included as an author. Dr Collins was a member of the team that originally set up the protocol, and he helped organise the assessments.   Randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic versus open mesh repair for inguinal hernia: outcome and cost An error occurred in the labelling of one of the figures in this paper by Wellwood and colleagues (11 July, pp 103-10). In figure 3 the blue solid line represents bilateral laparoscopic repair and the purple dotted line represents unilateral open repair.