Martinez M, Kirkegaard A, Bouskill K, et al. Surgeons’ views of peer comparison and guideline-based feedback on postsurgery opioid prescriptions: a qualitative investigation. BMJ Open Qual. 2024;13:e002750. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2024-002750

The authors have brought our attention to errors in their manuscript resulting from the publication of the blinded version of the manuscript, which has been published as an Original Research article in BMJ Open Quality. The errors appear throughout the document, including:

In the Background section. The revised text should have read as follows:

Our intervention was not only effective in reducing prescribing [14] but also unique in comprising two versions of behavioural ‘nudges,’ which use social norms to guide individuals towards reducing post-surgical opioid prescribing without impinging on autonomy and have been shown to scale easily.[15]

In the Methods section. The revised text should have read as follows:

This study was conducted at Sutter Health, a large, multispecialty delivery system in northern and central California that serves approximately 3.5 million patients. The qualitative interviews were part of a larger study described in detail in Kirkegaard et. al, 2022.[16] Nineteen Sutter Health hospitals and their associated surgeons from three surgical specialties (general, obstetric/gynecologic, and orthopaedic) were included in the study, which was a three-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial of two behavioural nudges compared with usual post-surgical care (control). One nudge compared opioid prescribing behaviour relative to guidelines endorsed by Sutter Health (guideline arm), while the other provided feedback on prescribing behaviour relative to peers in the same specialty (peer comparison arm).

In the Results section. The revised text should have read as follows:

One surgeon (guideline arm) specifically mentioned the possibility of incurring a statement of complaint related to underprescribing and suggested that it would be helpful for Sutter Health to protect surgeons against such complaints, explaining, ‘I would like to also be cleared of not having to respond to any sort of statement of complaint because of it…I’ve already received a couple in my career. If I get another one…that’s more work for me to deal with that than it is to not read an email…it actually reflects on my record.’