Erratum to “Suicide among veterans with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”

Abstract

An erratum is being issued to the article published in 2021 titled Suicide among veterans with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 1 In this research study, investigators used data from national Veterans Health Administration electronic health records (EHR) that are captured in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW). Study-specific databases for research projects within the VA, including this one, are provisioned by the VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI) group such that the study team is given access only to EHR records that meet study criteria. Study investigators were notified after the publication of the article that the database for this project was impacted by a larger data provisioning issue within the VA, and as a result, the data provisioned for this project were incomplete. The VINCI team corrected the provisioning