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Dr David Tuller: BJGP Correction Coming, BMJ Still Stonewalls 11th June 2019

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Trial By Error: BJGP Correction Coming, BMJ Still Stonewalls
11 JUNE 2019
By David Tuller, DrPH

Today I received an e-mail from Professor Roger Jones, editor of British Journal of General Practice. I’ve been nudging him to correct a false statement in a 2017 editorial about the cost of so-called “medically unexplained symptoms” to the UK National Health Service. The false statement involved a misquotation of a key statistic from a seminal 2010 paper. Professor Jones had promised to make the correction two weeks ago, so I sent him a reminder on Sunday.

He has now let me know that the correction is in process even though it is not yet visible to readers of the website. Here’s what he wrote:................................
 
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