In the Research Letter entitled “US State Regulation of Decisions for Pregnant Women Without Decisional Capacity,”1 published in the April 23/30, 2019, issue of JAMA, a statute in Arkansas was missed by the search strategy. Inclusion of this statute leads to an increase in the number of states restricting choices for life-sustaining therapies in pregnant women from 30 to 31 and changes Arkansas’ status in the article Figure to “restrictions exist on decision making for pregnant patients, contingent on likelihood of fetal survival.” This article was corrected online and a letter of explanation2 has also been published for further clarification.
References
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