Correction

Correction to ‘Techniques, success, and adverse events of emergency department adult intubations’

[ Annals of Emergency Medicine 67 (2015) 363–370.e1]

Calvin A. Brown, III,∗ Aaron E. Bair,† Daniel J. Pallin,∗ Ron M. Walls∗; on behalf of the NEAR III Investigators

∗The Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

†The Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California—Davis, Sacramento, CA

We accessed the database underlying the above publication in order to perform a new analysis. During our process of analysis and quality checking, we identified errors, which we respectfully report here. There was an error in the coding of operator characteristics (discipline and rank of person making the first attempt to intubate). This resulted in incorrect figures for the proportion of successful first attempts. The corrected data are presented in the table included here, and should replace the corresponding data in the published manuscript’s Table 2 . We also determined that 3.8% of the observations were duplicates. We removed the duplicates and repeated the analysis and found no meaningful differences, though the total N was slightly smaller (16,933 vs. 17,583).

Finally, we did not adjust our results for clustering by center. Had we done so, the observed confidence intervals would have been wider, though the point estimates would not have been different. We apologize for our failure to detect this at the time of publication of the main manuscript.

Correction to: Table 2

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