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Am Fam Physician. 2022;106(4):365

Misused eponym. In the article, “Orthostatic Hypotension: A Practical Approach” (January 2022, p. 39), an outdated eponym was used to describe the standing test for measuring blood pressure and heart rate changes under gravitational stress. The term “Schellong test” has been removed from the article in the abstract (page 39), SORT table (page 40), the second paragraph (pages 40–41) and the seventh paragraph (page 42) of the “Clinical Presentation and Evaluation” section, the first item under Indications in Table 6 (page 43), and Figure 2 (page 45). The term “Schellong test” was also removed from Question 7 of the January 2022 CME Quiz. The online versions of this article and the CME Quiz have been corrected.

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