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CORRECTION article

Front. Med., 08 January 2025
Sec. Infectious Diseases: Pathogenesis and Therapy
Volume 11 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2024.1532350

Corrigendum: Combining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration

This article is a correction to:

  1. Combining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration

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\r\nKathleen A. McGinnis Kathleen A. McGinnis1*Amy C. Justice,Amy C. Justice1,2Vincent C. Marconi,Vincent C. Marconi3,4Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas,Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas5,6Ronald G. Hauser,Ronald G. Hauser1,7Krisann K. Oursler,Krisann K. Oursler8,9Sheldon T. BrownSheldon T. Brown10Kendall J. BryantKendall J. Bryant11Janet P. Tate, for the Veterans Aging Cohort StudyJanet P. Tate1,2 for the Veterans Aging Cohort Study
  • 1VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States
  • 2Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
  • 3The Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • 4VA Medical Center, Decatur, GA, United States
  • 5Infectious Diseases Section, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States
  • 6Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
  • 7Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
  • 8Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, United States
  • 9VA Salem Healthcare System, Salem, VA, United States
  • 10James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
  • 11National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, United States

A Corrigendum on
Combining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration

by McGinnis, K. A., Justice, A. C., Marconi, V. C., Rodriguez-Barradas, M. C., Hauser, R. G., Oursler, K. K., Brown, S. T., Bryant, K. J., and Tate, J. P. (2024). Front. Med. 10:1342466. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1342466

In the published article, there was an error in the CD4 < 200 plot in Figure 4 and the corresponding interpretation. The corrected Figure 4 and its caption appear below.

Figure 4
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Figure 4. Among PWH, observed (open circles) and predicted (solid line) 10-year, all-cause mortality as a function of VACS-CCI and VACS Index 2.0 risk scores. 95% confidence intervals for observed mortality are very narrow and may be difficult to discern.

A correction has been made to Results, VACS-CCI validation in PWH, Paragraph 2.

This sentence previously stated:

“Observed mortality was generally congruent with predicted mortality among subgroups, except that VACS Index underestimated mortality for PWH with CD4 < 200.”

The corrected sentence appears below:

“Observed mortality was generally congruent with predicted mortality among subgroups, including for PWH with CD4 < 200.”

A correction has been made to Results, VACS-CCI validation in PWH, Paragraph 3.

This sentence previously stated:

“To better understand the underestimated mortality for PWH CD4 < 200 using VACS Index, we compared conditions included in the CCI by CD4 count groups (<200, 200–499, 500+).”

The corrected sentence appears below:

“To better understand PWH with CD4 < 200, we compared conditions included in the CCI by CD4 count groups (<200, 200–499, 500+).”

The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords: VACS Index, Charlson Comorbidity Index, HIV, mortality, prediction

Citation: McGinnis KA, Justice AC, Marconi VC, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Hauser RG, Oursler KK, Brown ST, Bryant KJ and Tate JP (2025) Corrigendum: Combining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration. Front. Med. 11:1532350. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1532350

Received: 21 November 2024; Accepted: 24 December 2024;
Published: 08 January 2025.

Edited and reviewed by: Hiroyuki Gatanaga, National Center For Global Health and Medicine, Japan

Copyright © 2025 McGinnis, Justice, Marconi, Rodriguez-Barradas, Hauser, Oursler, Brown, Bryant and Tate. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Kathleen A. McGinnis, a2F0aGxlZW4ubWNnaW5uaXMzQHZhLmdvdg==

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