Correction

Following the decision of the General Medical Council�s Fitness to Practise Panel, [1] the publisher is issuing a correction that affects the authorship of a letter published in the Postgraduate Medical Journal. [2]

Following the Panel�s decision, this paper should now always be cited as:

Bird, AD. Cost effective strategy for a safe diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis at a district general hospital. Postgrad Med J 2003;19:363.

Ms Bird acknowledges the help of Dr JIG Strang, Dr R Winter and Mr R Hibberd.

1. http://www.gmc-uk.org/concerns/decisions/search_database/ftp_panel_sinharay_20051122.asp

2. Sinharay R, Strang G, Bird D, Cost effective strategy for a safe diagnosis of DVT at a district general hospital. Postgrad Med J 2003;19:363.