Erratum

Abstract

The above referenced article, published in the February 2009 issue of The Journal of Child Neurology, is an analysis of the Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID), a large, restricted-access, publicly available dataset that is maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). One of the provisions of the KID Data Use Agreement (DUA), which the authors signed when purchasing the dataset, is that no data observation involving less than or equal to 10 observations is to be published. This measure was put in place by AHRQ to protect individual patients’ privacy and to prevent the potential disclosure of personal information. In this article there are some tabulated cells that are in violation of this provision. This represents an oversight on the authors’ part and an inadvertent failure to comply with the Data Use Agreement. A revised online version of the article that is in compliance with the AHRQ guidelines has been posted on the journal website.