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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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
Provisionally accepted- 1 VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Veterans Health Administration, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, United States
- 2 School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- 3 Atlanta VA Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Decatur, Georgia, United States
- 4 School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- 5 Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- 6 Infectious Diseases Section, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Houston, Texas, United States
- 7 Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
- 8 Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- 9 Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, Virginia, United States
- 10 VA Salem Healthcare System, Salem, Virginia, United States
- 11 James J. Peters VA Medical Center, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Bronx, New York, United States
- 12 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Corrigendum on: McGinnis KA, Justice AC, Marconi VC, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Hauser RG, Oursler KK, Brown ST, Bryant KJ and Tate JP (2024) 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. 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. Error in Figure 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. Text Correction 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 this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.
Keywords: VACS index, HIV, Mortality, prediction, Charlson Comorbidity Index
Received: 21 Nov 2024; Accepted: 24 Dec 2024.
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* Correspondence:
Kathleen A. McGinnis, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Veterans Health Administration, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, United States
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