Correction to: Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: a retrospective cohort study

Table 2 Number of notifications and adjusted notification rate per 1,000 practitioner years

Characteristic	Number of notifications n = 8,307 (a)	Adjusted notification rate per 1,000 practitioner years (b)	95% confidence interval	p-value (c)
Profession				< 0.0001
Doctor	4,504	29.0	27.8 to 3.2
Nurse and/or midwife	1,537	4.1	3.8 to 4.3
Psychologist	473	14.1	12.7 to 15.5
Pharmacist	409	13.6	12.1 to 15.0
Dentist	910	41.4	37.9 to 45.0
Other health practitioner	474	9.1	8.2 to 9.9
Age in 2010				< 0.0001
≤25	255	5.2	4.6 to 5.9
26-35	1,334	8.0	7.5 to 8.5
36-45	2,104	12.9	12.2 to 13.5
46-55	2,594	16.4	15.7 to 17.2
56-65	1,582	17.0	16.0 to 18.1
≥66	438	16.4	14.4 to 18.3
Sex				< 0.0001
Female	2,938	7.9	7.6 to 8.2
Male	5,367	17.9	17.2 to 18.5
Practice location				0.48
Major cities	6,343	12.5	12.1 to 12.9
Inner/outer regional	1,840	12.0	11.3 to 12.7
Remote/very remote	117	11.8	9.3 to 14.4

(a) Some cells do not sum to 8,307 notifications because of missing data
(b) Adjusted for all other variables in the table and state/territory
(c) p-value refers to evidence that the adjusted notification rates differs between categories. This test is based on the coefficients (and their standard errors) from the negative binomial model

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