Correction Analytics
How ASH tracks its own corrections in the open \u2014 by count, by severity, and by closure status.
When ASH gets something wrong, the fix is logged in public rather than quietly swapped in. This page documents how that process works — the report-to-publish lifecycle and how corrections are triaged by severity. It is a view of an editorial process and makes no clinical or treatment claims of any kind.
The authoritative, item-by-item record is the public correction log. Aggregate correction counts are not published on this page until they can be reported from that live log — no figures here are invented.
Correction metrics
ASH does not yet publish quantitative correction analytics — totals, severity distribution, or time-to-closure — as a live feed, and we will not display invented numbers in their place. The authoritative, item-by-item record is the public correction log. Aggregate analytics will appear here once the log has accumulated enough entries to report them honestly.
How corrections are triaged
Each correction is assigned a severity. Severity describes how far a published statement could mislead a reader before it was fixed — an editorial triage tag that sets the response target, not a clinical grading of any kind.
- Critical — Factual or regulatory error that could materially mislead
- Major — Substantive error affecting interpretation of a page
- Minor — Numerical, citation, or wording fix with limited impact
- Editorial — Typo, formatting, or clarity improvement
The correction lifecycle
Every correction moves through the same four stages, from the moment it is reported to the moment the fix is published in the open.
Report
Anyone can flag a suspected error — a reader, a clinician, an editor, or an automated citation check. Every report is recorded with a timestamp.
Triage
The report is reviewed and assigned a severity. Severity sets the response target, so a critical regulatory error is not queued behind a typo.
Fix
The underlying source of truth is corrected and the change is reviewed. Nothing is quietly overwritten; the prior state is preserved in version history.
Publish
The correction is published to the public correction log with the date, scope, and a plain-language summary of what changed and why.
Why we track corrections in the open
A correction record is only trustworthy if it cannot be edited away. ASH publishes every correction — with its date, scope, and a plain-language summary — so that readers, clinicians, and funders can see not just what the site says today, but how it has changed and why. Transparency about being wrong is part of the trust infrastructure, not an embarrassment to be hidden.
- Correction log — the live, item-by-item public record this page summarises.
- Submit a correction — how to flag a suspected error and start the lifecycle above.
- Editorial policy — the standards a published statement is held to before and after correction.
- Transparency and Trust — the broader narrative of ASH's editorial commitments and disclosure practices.