Erratum: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Subphenotypes Respond Differently to Randomized Fluid Management Strategy

The authors of an article published in the February 1, 2017, issue of the Journal have identified an error. In Famous and colleagues (1), the terms identifying two different therapies, fluid-conservative and fluid-liberal, have been inadvertently exchanged for one another. This error affects Table 4 in the Results, three sentences in the Discussion, and four words in the abstract, as well as Table E7 in the supplement. All other analyses for the publication were rechecked by the authors and determined by them to be correct. Because of the nature of the changes, the Journal is replacing the online version of the article with one that contains the corrections. For the convenience of our readers, we are also posting a copy of the original article with all corrections indicated in red (this may be found in the supplemental materials tab of the online article).

The authors have determined that this error does not affect the main conclusions of the paper, namely, that two acute respiratory distress syndrome subphenotypes were identified in the FACTT study, that these two subphenotypes were similar to those previously identified by the same authors in other trials, that these two subphenotypes had widely divergent clinical outcomes, and that the two subphenotypes responded differently to fluid therapy. The authors take full responsibility for this error and apologize to the readership of the Journal.