Correction to: Anxiety in children with CFS/ME (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, (2009), 18, 11, (683-689), 10.1007/s00787-009-0029-4)

Following a report of a publications review jointly commissioned by the Health Research Authority and the University of Bristol, the authors would like to correct the following element of the ethics statement provided in the original article (1): The North Somerset & Bristol Research Ethics Committee decided that the original collection and analysis of this data were service evaluation and as such did not require ethical review by an NHS research ethics committee or approval from the NHS R&D Office (07 /Q2006/48). In a letter dated 29 January 2007, the Chair of the Research Ethics Committee had previously confirmed (a) that it would not be necessary to apply for ethical permission to use the data being collected as part of service evaluation for the national CFS/ME collaborative and (b) that if in future this data were to be used as part of a research project, this would be agreeable.