An error occurred in the article by Siebert JN et al, titled “Outdoor Cold Air Versus Room Temperature Exposure for Croup Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial” published in the September 2023 issue of Pediatrics (2023;152[3]:e2023061365; doi:10.1542/peds.2023-061365).
The authors note that while the results section of the manuscript is accurate, the CONSORT diagram of the study (Fig 1) contained a typographical error in the form of an inversion between the two study arms regarding one patient assigned to the intervention group who did not receive the corresponding intervention. Consequently, in the corrected version of the CONSORT diagram, it should be read that one patient in the intervention group (outdoor cold air exposure) did not receive the assigned intervention, whereas all 59 patients in the control group (ie, indoor room temperature exposure) completed the assigned intervention.
The online Fig 1 has been corrected accordingly.
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