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Error in Table 2

Posted by dsmith694 on 12 Jul 2021 at 04:57 GMT

On behalf of the authors of this paper (Smith et.al PLOSone 2018) I would like to identify and correct an error in Table 2.

The bottom section of Table 2 in the published version contains a section on "'Years after diagnosis"' that was not intended to be published. The SMRs are incorrect. The table presented should show "'Period of diagnosis"' rather than Years after diagnosis.

Table 2 should be as follows.

Table 2. Observed and expected numbers of suicide deaths, Standardised Mortality Ratios (SMR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (95% CI) for New South Wales men diagnosed with prostate cancer during 1997 to 2007


Period of diagnosis Observed Expected SMR 95% CIs

1997-2000 21 14.77 1.42 0.88-2.17
2001-2004 20 10.36 1.93 1.18-2.98
2005-2007 8 3.73 2.15 0.93-4.23
Total 49 28.85 1.70 1.26-2.25

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