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Correction: What Are the Roles and Responsibilities of the Media in Disseminating Health Information?
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Citation: Schwitzer G, Mudur G, Henry D, Wilson A, Goozner M, et al. (2005) Correction: What Are the Roles and Responsibilities of the Media in Disseminating Health Information? PLoS Med 2(8): e321. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020321
Published: August 30, 2005
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In PLoS Medicine, vol 2, issue 7, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020215
The following sentence contains an incorrect number: “Only by massaging the numbers could one figure out that physicians would need to put 700 women on statins to eliminate one cancer case (in medical parlance, this is called number needed to treat).”
The corrected sentence is as follows: “Only by massaging the numbers could one figure out that physicians would need to put 140 women on statins to eliminate one cancer case (in medical parlance, this is called number needed to treat).”
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