Corrigendum

This article refers to:

Health-related quality of life in prostate cancer

Article title: “Health-related quality of life in prostate cancer”

Authors: Torvinen S, Färkkilä N, Sintonen H, Saarto T, Roine RP, and Taari K

Journal: Acta Oncologica

Bibliometrics: Volume 52, Number 6, pages 1094–1101.

DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2012.760848

In the above published paper, there were some errors in Tables II and III due to the QoL data being miscoded. The corrected figures are highlighted in yellow in the tables below.

Table II. Mean health scores in different disease states.

	EQ-5D				15D				VAS
	Mean	n	SD	95% CI	Mean	n	SD	95% CI	Mean	n	SD	95% CI
Loc1	0.90	46	0.19	0.84–0.96	0.91	47	0.09	0.89–0.94	81.11	46	14.87	76.69–85.52
Loc2	0.89	91	0.14	0.86–0.92	0.89	157	0.09	0.87–0.90	76.73	92	16.69	73.27–80.18
Loc3	0.87	309	0.19	0.85–0.89	0.88	310	0.11	0.87–0.89	79.8	311	16.24	77.99–81.62
Metastatic	0.74	85	0.27	0.69–0.80	0.80	88	0.12	0.78–0.83	66.79	86	21.80	62.12–71.46
Palliative	0.59	17	0.22	0.48–0.70	0.67	19	0.10	0.62–0.72	48.67	18	19.10	39.17–58.17
All patients	0.84	548	0.21	0.83–0.86	0.87	621	0.11	0.89–0.94	76.36	553	18.56	74.81–77.91

Table III. PCa patients’ HRQoL compared to that of the general population, 15D, EQ-5D.

	Loc1 Δ		Loc2 Δ		Loc3 Δ		Metastatic Δ		Palliative Δ
EQ-5D	0.116	***	0.060	***	0.050	***	−0.053	*	−0.153	**
15D index	0.025		0.012		−0.001		−0.068	***	−0.177	***
15D dimensions
Mobility	0.019		0.033	***	0.012		−0.066	**	−0.260	***
Vision	0.008		0.036	***	0.005		−0.003		−0.102	*
Hearing	−0.013		0.018		0.005		−0.026		−0.183	**
Breathing	0.017		0.037		0.012		−0.054	*	−0.104
Sleeping	0.012		−0.009	**	−0.026	*	−0.058	*	−0.121	*
Eating	−0.005		0.009		0.003		0.003		−0.032
Speech	0.022	***	0.017		0.012		0.019	*	−0.056
Elimination	−0.010		−0.044	**	−0.043	***	−0.134	***	−0.293	***
Usual activities	0.029		0.047	***	0.015		−0.106	***	−0.272	***
Mental function	0.081	***	0.048	***	0.037	***	0.021		−0.045
Discomfort and symptoms	0.082	***	0.065	***	0.046	***	−0.080	***	−0.180	***
Depression	0.032		0.016		0.009		−0.026		−0.137	***
Distress	0.003		0.001		−0.010		−0.029		−0.165	***
Vitality	0.036		0.010		−0.003		−0.110	***	−0.255	***
Sexual activity	−0.042		−0.229	***	−0.205	***	−0.446	***	−0.544	***

Δ, difference compared to the general population (positive for better scores compared to general population).

* p value <0.05; ** p value <0.01; ***p value <0.005.

The authors apologize for these errors.