The authors of Pottegård et al. (2021) have supplied the following correction to their article.An inadvertent coding mistake caused some maintenance treatment (non‐first prescriptions) to be incorrectly classified as representing treatment initiation.This led to an attenuation of differences in the supplementary analyses investigating the prescriber profile of treatment initiation and maintenance treatment.As a result of these mistakes, the Abstract and Results section of the original publication should be corrected to read:“General practitioners were responsible for 75% of all treatment initiation (first prescription) and 89% of all maintenance treatment. Corresponding values for hospital physicians were 16 and 6.5%, and for private practicing specialists 8.1 and 3.7%.”.Furthermore, the data in Supplementary Figure
has been updated and now similarly shows a slightly higher proportion of treatment initiation being ascribed to hospital prescribers and private practicing specialists. The updated Figure is provided below.The authors apologize for these mistakes and state that the remaining analyses and conclusions of this study were not affected.Supplementary Figure S2: Proportion of prescriptions prescribed by different prescriber types from 2000 to 2018 divided into first‐time (first ever within the given drug class) and maintenance treatment.Click here for additional data file.