The Journal publishes corrections when they are of significance to patient care, scientific data or record-keeping, or authorship, whether that error was made by an author, editor, or staff. Errata also appear in the online version and are attached to files downloaded from jbjs.org.
In the article entitled “What's New in Adult Reconstructive Knee Surgery” (J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2019 Jan 16;101[2]:), by Taunton, there was an error on page 105. Specifically, in the subsection titled “Outcomes and Design” the sentence that had read “Furthermore, in a retrospective review, Houdek et al.48, at a mean follow-up of 8 years, demonstrated improved survivorship of 9,999 metal-backed compared with 1,645 all-polyethylene tibial components, over all age groups and most BMI categories” should have read “Furthermore, in a retrospective review, Houdek et al.48, at a mean follow-up of 8 years, demonstrated inferior survivorship of 9,999 metal-backed compared with 1,645 all-polyethylene tibial components, over all age groups and most BMI categories.”
