Correction: Using patients experiences of adverse events to improve health service delivery and practice: protocol of a data linkage study of Australian adults age 45 and above

Walton M, Smith-Merry J, Harrison R, et al. Using patients' experiences of adverse events to improve health service delivery and practice: protocol of a data linkage study of Australian adults age 45 and above. BMJ Open 2014;4:e006599. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006599

The authors have been alerted to the omission of the following important details in the reporting of their study protocol:

The Sax Institute is acknowledged as the managing organisation for the 45 and Up Study.

Prospective 45 and Up participants were randomly sampled from the Department of Human Services (formerly Medicare Australia) enrolment database, which provides near complete coverage of the population. People aged 80 and over and residents of rural and remote areas were oversampled. Those who agreed to participate completed a baseline questionnaire (between Jan 2006 and December 2009) and gave signed consent for follow-up and linkage of their information to routine health databases

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