Erratum to: Rhinoplasty as a Medicalized Phenomenon: A 25-Center Survey on Quality of Life Before and After Cosmetic Rhinoplasty

Overview

Journals publish an erratum when something in an already-printed article is wrong and needs to be put on the permanent record. Here the error was administrative rather than scientific. The correct affiliation for A. Pourreza, M. Mahmoodi and F. Akbari is Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The original article appeared in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2014, volume 38, pages 615 to 619.

Sections of note

• Document type is an erratum attached to an earlier publication.
• The original paper is a 25-centre survey of quality of life before and after cosmetic rhinoplasty.
• The original digital object identifier is 10.1007/s00266-014-0323-5.
• The correction concerns author affiliation only.
• No patient numbers, methods, results or outcome data are reported in this notice.
• The authors state the error was theirs.

What it means for a patient

• Nothing in this notice changes any clinical finding, risk or result.
• The study it corrects is the source to read for the actual quality-of-life data. This entry exists only to complete the publication record.
• Errata are routine in medical publishing and most, like this one, concern names, affiliations or typesetting rather than the science.
• Because no data appear here, no conclusion about rhinoplasty outcomes can be drawn from this record.

Why this paper matters

Correction notices are indexed alongside research articles, so they appear in literature searches and can be mistaken for findings. Listing this one plainly keeps the archive honest and points readers to the original 25-centre survey. The substantive question, whether cosmetic rhinoplasty changes quality of life across many centres, is answered in that paper and not here.

Terms

• Erratum: a published correction to an article already in print.
• Affiliation: the institution an author is listed as working for.
• Digital object identifier: a permanent code identifying a specific published article.
• Quality of life: a measure of how a condition or treatment affects daily functioning and wellbeing.
• Multicentre survey: a study collecting data from patients at several separate institutions.