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. 2022 Feb 24;8(4):648. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.0019

Errors in Abstract, Text, and Tables

PMCID: PMC8874862  PMID: 35201260

For the Original Investigation titled “Effect of Integrating Machine Learning Mortality Estimates With Behavioral Nudges to Clinicians on Serious Illness Conversations Among Patients With Cancer: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial,”1 published online on October 15, 2020, and in the December 2020 issue of JAMA Oncology, the authors found an inadvertent programming error involving a single incorrect character that resulted in an overestimate of the number of high-risk patient encounters identified by the algorithm. This error affected statistics related to secondary outcomes of serious illness conversations and advance care planning conversations for high-risk patients in the abstract, main text, Tables 2 and 3, and Supplement 2. The authors corrected the error and repeated the analysis, which resulted in a slight change in the absolute values of findings related to high-risk patients that does not affect the interpretation of the study results. The article has been corrected online.

References

  • 1.Manz CR, Parikh RB, Small DS, et al. Effect of integrating machine learning mortality estimates with behavioral nudges to clinicians on serious illness conversations among patients with cancer: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized clinical trial. JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(12):e204759. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.4759 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

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