Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans: A study of the health
of Australia's Vietnam veteran community:
Volume 3 - Validation
Corrigendum to Validation Study
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- In Paul Stevens’ letter, the last paragraph on page vi states that the Health Study excluded ‘the veterans and children who died before this date’. This could be misunderstood as meaning that children who died before this date were not included in the study. This should be changed to ‘the veterans who died before this date and their children have been excluded ...’
- Page xvii of the Executive Summary—-in the third paragraph commencing ‘The results for the veterans are as follows’, colorectal cancer in the veterans should be changed from showing no significant difference in prevalence to the Australian community standard, to being significantly lower than the Australian community standard.
- Page xvii of the Executive Summary—in the fourth paragraph commencing ‘The results for the veterans’ children show’, the two dot points starting with Wilm’s tumour and Leukaemia refer to veterans’ children not veterans.
- Page 28, paragraph 3—colorectal cancer in the veterans needs to be changed from showing no significant difference in prevalence to the Australian community standard, to being significantly lower than the Australian community standard.
- Page 30, table 3.6 and page 45, table 4.6—-the Australian community standard for leukaemia is 57 (42-72) instead of 64 (48-80).
- Page 45, table 4.6, in the bottom half, leukaemia should read Low Low Low – –.
- Page 46, paragraph 2 of section 4.5 Conclusions—colorectal cancer in the veterans needs to be changed from showing no significant difference in prevalence to the Australian community standard, to being significantly lower than the Australian community standard.
- Page 47, paragraph 1—the two dot points starting with Wilm’s tumour and Leukaemia refer to veterans’ children not veterans.