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JAMA. 2007;297(20):2200.

Incorrect Example: In the Original Contribution entitled "An Empirical Examination of the Stage Theory of Grief" published in the February 21, 2007, issue of JAMA (2007;297:716-723), an incorrect example was provided for natural causes. On page 717, column 1, second full paragraph, the third sentence should be "Because approximately 94% of US deaths result from natural causes (eg, heart disease, cancer),¹⁵ deaths from unnatural causes (eg, car crashes, suicide) were excluded thereby enabling the results to be generalized to the most common types of death."