Correcting the Scientific Record —Retraction and Replacement of a Report on Dialysis Ownership and Access to Kidney Transplantation

The September 10, 2019, issue of JAMA included an Original Investigation titled “Association Between Dialysis Facility Ownership and Access to Kidney Transplantation” by Gander and colleagues, and an accompanying Editorial by Boulware and colleagues. The authors of the research report subsequently notified the editors that a major coding error had occurred in their data man agement and analyses, and that they discovered these errors had resulted in incorrect data in their published article. As reported in their letter of explanation, the authors performed a thorough reanalysis of their data to address these errors and found that the main findings and overall conclusion were consistent with the main findings and conclusion reported in the published article, although the corrected analysis revealed important differences in effect size and strength of the associations.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research