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;79:363.

Ms Bird acknowledges the help of Dr J I G Strang, Dr R Winter, and Mr R Hibberd.