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In this article, the supplemental table S1 included cells where the number of patients was < 10 which is in violation of the HCUP data use agreement. A revised online version of the supplemental material that is in compliance with the AHRQ guidelines has been posted online.
This article is an analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), a large, restricted-access, publicly available dataset and the State Inpatient Database (SID), a restricted-access, publicly available dataset that are maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). One of the provisions of the Data Use Agreement (DUA), which the author signed when purchasing the data, is that no data involving less than or equal to 10 observations are to be published. This measure was put in place by AHRQ to protect individual patients’ privacy and to prevent the potential disclosure of personal information. In the manuscript, there are two tabulated cells in the supplemental table S1 that are in violation of this provision. This represents an oversight on the authors’ part and an inadvertent failure to comply with the Data Use Agreement, for which they apologize. While they are fully confident that nothing in the paper could be used to identify individuals or their personal information, the fact remains that the disclosures are in violation of the AHRQ guidelines