In the Research paper by Hayward G, Verbakel JY, Abakar Ismail F, et al. Non-contact infrared versus axillary and tympanic thermometers in children attending primary care: a mixed-methods study of accuracy and acceptability. Br J Gen Pract 2020; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp20X708845, the numbers listed in Table 3 did not tally with Table 4. The authors discovered a coding error for the calculation of secondary outcome of diagnostic accuracy in Table 3, leading to missing values being counted as fever positives. In addition, the total number of participants in Table 2 was incorrect, but all analyses were correctly conducted and reported. To summarise the changes: 1) the total number of participants in Table 2 has been corrected, 2) the analyses in Table 3 have been corrected. Numbers in the text of the results have been adapted accordingly. The Discussion has been modified to reflect these changes (prevalence of fever was lower than reported, sensitivity of the NCITs for fever based on the axillary reading as a reference standard was better than initially reported and equivalent to other literature, but confidence intervals were very wide). No changes were needed to the abstract.
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