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Erratum for Surman et al., J Public Health 28 (2) 148-156.
Journal of Public Health 2006 28(4):400; doi:10.1093/jpubhealth/fdl060
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Surman G, Bonellie S, Chalmers J, Colver A, Dolk H, Hemming K, King A, Kurinczuk JJ, Parkes J, Platt MJ. UKCP: a collaborative network of cerebral palsy registers in the United Kingdom. J Public Health Med 2006; 28(2): 148–156.

We have become aware that there was an error in the denominator data for North of England and this had some effect on the rates reported and Figure 2 in the above paper.


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  		Fig. 2 Rate of cerebral palsy (CP) (3-year moving average) per 1000 live births for each register and for the UKCP combined database, excluding postneonatal CP and children born to mothers residing outside the catchment areas. Birth years of data: (i) Mersey, 1976–1990; (ii) North of England, 1976–1996; (iii) Northern Ireland, 1981–1996; (iv) Oxford (4Child), 1984–1996; and (v) Scotland, 1984–1990.

 
Mean annual prevalence rate should be 2.1 per 1000 live births for birth years 1986–1996 rather than 2.0 as quoted in the abstract and under ‘Characteristics of the children’ in the main body of the paper. Rates of spastic CP per 1000 live births range from 0.8 to 2.2, not 0.8 to 2.0 as quoted.

Corrected denominator data indicates an increase in CP rates for North of England in the 1990s and the effect on rates for all data combined has been to reduce the overall downward trend for these later years as can be seen in the corrected Figure 2.





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