Correction

In the article ”First Nations hepatitis C virus infections. Six-year retrospective study of on-reserve rates of newly reported infections in northwestern Ontario,”¹ which appeared in the November issue of Canadian Family Physician, an error was inadvertently included. The corrections appear below.

The 2011 rate per 100 000 (95% CI) of newly reported cases of hepatitis C virus infection should have been 135.5 (112.7 to 158.3) in Table 1. This change affects the initial slope of the rates presented in Figure 1 but does not affect the overall increasing trend. The upper limit of the 95% CI for the 2014 rate should be 327.3. The correct versions of Table 1 and Figure 1 are presented here. The authors apologize for the error and any confusion it might have caused.

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Figure 1.

Age-adjusted rates (per 100 000 population) of newly reported hepatitis C virus antibody-positive test results among First Nations patients living on reserve in SLFNHA communities by year (2010 to 2015) and corresponding rates in Canada and Ontario

SLFNHA—Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority.

Data from Public Health Ontario¹⁴ and Public Health Agency of Canada.¹⁵

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