In the Original Investigation titled “Sex Differences in the Pattern of Patient Referrals to Male and Female Surgeons,” published in the November 10, 2021, issue of JAMA Surgery,¹ an incorrect term was used in the Referral Homophily subsection of the Results section. The third paragraph’s first sentence should have ended with physicians instead of surgeons. The full sentence should read as follows: “Post hoc exploratory analysis limited to only those referrals associated with diagnostic codes related to breast issues suggested inbreeding homophily among female physicians, whereby female surgeons accounted for 26.0% of surgeons seeing patients with breast issues but received 30.7% of referrals from female physicians.” This article was corrected online.

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