One sentence in the clinical practice guideline published in the
May 1, 2020, issue of the Journal (1) contains errors. On page e62, the second sentence of the second paragraph
in the committee discussion of Question 2 should read: “In this study, patients
with COPD and no history of exacerbations had a 17% [not 39%] increased
relative risk of pneumonia and a 52% reduced relative risk of exacerbations
(31).”For the convenience of our readers, the Journal is replacing the online
version of the article with a corrected version. These corrections do not change the
conclusions or recommendations contained in the guideline.
Authors: Linda Nici; Manoj J Mammen; Edward Charbek; Paul E Alexander; David H Au; Cynthia M Boyd; Gerard J Criner; Gavin C Donaldson; Michael Dreher; Vincent S Fan; Andrea S Gershon; MeiLan K Han; Jerry A Krishnan; Fernando J Martinez; Paula M Meek; Michael Morgan; Michael I Polkey; Milo A Puhan; Mohsen Sadatsafavi; Don D Sin; George R Washko; Jadwiga A Wedzicha; Shawn D Aaron Journal: Am J Respir Crit Care Med Date: 2020-05-01 Impact factor: 21.405