An error occurred in the article by Andrews AL et al, titled “Pediatric Firearm Injury Mortality Epidemiology” published in the March 2022 issue of Pediatrics (2022;149(3):e2021052739; doi:10.1542/peds.2021-052739).

On page 1, a sentence in the Abstract read: “In 2019, firearm injuries surpassed motor vehicle collisions to become the leading cause of death for youth aged 0 to 19 years in the United States.” This should have read: “In 2019, firearm injuries surpassed motor vehicle collisions to become the leading cause of death for youth aged 0-19 years in the United States, after excluding deaths due to prematurity and congenital anomalies.”

On page 2, column 3, sentence 2 read: “MVC mortality rates are used as a comparator group because MVC has been the leading cause of death for youth in the United States for decades.¹” This should have read: “MVC mortality rates are used as a comparator group because MVC has been the leading cause of death for youth in the United States for decades.¹ Deaths due to prematurity and congenital anomalies were excluded.”

On page 3, Results, sentence 1 read: “In 2019, firearm injury surpassed MVCs to become the number one cause of death in children aged 0 to 19 years old (Fig 1).” This should have read: “In 2019, firearm injury surpassed MVCs to become the number one cause of death in children aged 0-19 years old, after excluding deaths due to prematurity and congenital anomalies (Fig 1).”

On page 4, Discussion, sentence 1 read: “Firearm injury became the leading cause of death for youth in the United States in 2019, surpassing MVCs.” This should have read: “After excluding deaths due to prematurity and congenital anomalies, firearm injury became the leading cause of death for youth in the United States in 2019, surpassing MVCs.”

The online article has been corrected.