Correction To: BMC Medical Education (2022) 22:812
10.1186/s12909-022-03881-y.
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors informed us that due to an error while merging the data, Table 1 includes some inaccurate data. Please find below the amended version of the table. To reflect these changes, one sentence of the results section should be amended.
Previous version: “On average, Norwegian schools had stricter policies (mean score: 0.9) followed by Sweden (mean score: 0.7) and Denmark (mean score: 0.5)”.
Amended version: “On average, Norwegian schools had stricter policies (mean score: 0.8) followed by Sweden (mean score: 0.7) and Denmark (mean score: 0.5)”.
Table 1.
Number of medical schools with policies for each item and strength of the policy
| Country | DENMARK (n = 4) |
NORWAY (n = 4) |
SWEDEN (n = 7) |
TOTAL (n = 15) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | No. of schools with no or permissive policy (score = 0) | No. of schools with moderate policy (score = 1) | No. of schools with restrictive policy (score = 2) |
No. of schools with no or permissive policy (score = 0) | No. of schools with moderate policy (score = 1) | No. of schools with restrictive policy (score = 2) | No. of schools with no or permissive policy (score = 0) | No. of schools with moderate policy (score = 1) | No. of schools with restrictive policy (score = 2) | No. of schools with no or permissive policy (score = 0) | No. of schools with moderate policy (score = 1) | No. of schools with restrictive policy (score = 2) |
| 1.Gifts | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| 2.Consulting | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 |
| 3.Speaking | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| 4.Honoraria | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 5.Ghostwriting | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 4 |
| 6.Disclosure | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
| 7.Sales representatives | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| 8.On-site education | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 |
| 9.Travel or off-site events | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 |
| 10.Medical school curriculum | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| 11.Samples | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| Mean item score* | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Enforcement of policies | ||||||||||||
| No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | |||||
| Oversight | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 13 | ||||
| Sanctions | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 13 | ||||
* Calculated as the sum of the scores divided by number of items (i.e., 11) and number of institutions.
Footnotes
The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/s12909-022-03881-y.
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References
- 1.Fabbri, et al. BMC Med Educ. 2022;22812. 10.1186/s12909-022-03881-y.