Corrigendum to: Variation in direct healthcare costs to the health system by residents living in long-term care facilities: a Registry of Senior Australians study

This article corrects Australian Health Review [Published 4 June 2024] doi:10.1071/AH24081

The authors propose the following corrections.

There was a misalignment in Table 1 and the last three lines should have read: 
Size, N (%)
<20 residents 4703 (6.3)
≥20 residents 70,439 (93.7)

The Table 1 footnote A should have read as follows:
A: Dementia was ascertained from the aged care eligibility, aged care funding and the dispensing of medications for the treatment of dementia.
s.d., standard deviation; IQR, Interquartile range.

In Table 2, the last column should have included footnote A and read as follows:
A: Healthcare costs adjusted for: age, sex, frailty index, state, Rx-Risks, activities of daily living needs, behavioural daily living needs and complex healthcare needs with additional variables (dementia, facility remoteness, types of facilities) where relevant. CI, confidence interval.

The Fig. 2 caption should have read:
Healthcare resource use as a proportion (average) of all healthcare costs in 2016 A$, overall and by individual and long-term care facility characteristic.

In addition, the line under Fig. 2 should have read:
ED = Emergency department presentations, MBS = Medicare Benefits Schedule, PBS = Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (medicines)

In Fig. 3, the note should have read:
Note: the graph showing dispersion around the average cost for each long-term care facility as a function of the facility volume. The solid and dotted lines represent the 95 and 99% confidence.