LETTER
CORRECTION: PREVALENCE RATIO
15 April 1996 | Volume 124 Issue 8 | Page 777
In Table 3 of a recent article on the battering syndrome [1], the crude prevalence ratio for the column "Abused as a Child" should be 3.7, not 13.7.
1. McCauley J, Kern DE, Kolodner K, Dill L, Schroeder AF, DeChant HK, et al. The "battering syndrome": prevalence and clinical characteristics of domestic violence in primary care internal medicine practices. Ann Intern Med. 1995; 123:737-46.
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