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Huang SW, Wu CW, Lin LF, Liou TH, Lin HW. Gout can increase the risk of receiving rotator cuff tear repair surgery. Am J Sports Med. 2017;45(10):2355-2363. (Original DOI: 10.1177/0363546517704843) There was an error at the beginning of the Discussion section on page 2359 of this article. The corrected text is below. This population-based, retrospective cohort study demonstrated that patients with gout who were aged 50 years or younger (≤50 years old) had a 2.7 times higher risk of receiving rotator cuff repair surgery than did subjects without gout.