Clinical Report: Correction of an Author Surname in a Heart Failure Letter

Overview

A correction published online August 19, 2026, amended the spelling of the last author’s surname in the Letter “Bridging the Heart Failure Postdischarge Gap With Artificial Intelligence.” The surname now reads Kubica. The supplied context does not report changes to the Letter’s content or findings.

Background

The corrected Letter concerns artificial intelligence and care after hospital discharge for heart failure. The supplied context identifies the correction as an author-name amendment and provides no clinical results from the Letter. Other supplied correction notices describe amendments to authorship, figure labels, and copyright information in separate publications. These notices are distinct from the heart failure Letter correction.

Data Highlights

The source reports a publication date of August 19, 2026, and a corrected surname: Kubica. No trial data or numerical clinical outcomes are provided for the Letter.

Key Findings

• The Letter is titled “Bridging the Heart Failure Postdischarge Gap With Artificial Intelligence.”
• It was published online on August 19, 2026.
• The correction amended the spelling of the last author’s surname to Kubica.
• The supplied source does not describe any change to the Letter’s clinical content.
• A separate npj Digital Medicine correction states that a consortium was inadvertently listed as authors and that the original article was corrected.
• Another separate npj Digital Medicine correction concerns reversed labels for levels of human involvement in an AI figure; it is unrelated to the surname amendment.

Clinical Implications

This notice documents a bibliographic correction only; the supplied material does not identify a change to clinical recommendations or evidence. Readers citing the Letter should use the corrected surname, Kubica.

Conclusion

The correction updates the last author’s surname in the heart failure postdischarge AI Letter to Kubica. No further changes to the Letter are specified in the supplied source.

Related Resources & Content

1. Article context, 2026 — Correction to the Last Author’s Surname in a Letter on Artificial Intelligence and Heart Failure Postdischarge Care
2. npj Digital Medicine, 2025 — Correction: Utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Transfer Learning to Improve Prediction of Outcomes Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Varied Environments
3. npj Digital Medicine, 2026 — Correction Notice: Incorporating AI Technologies in Health Research
4. Clinical Research in Cardiology, 2019 — Correction Notice: Effectiveness of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Diabetic Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
5. Frontiers in Digital Health — Erratum: Evaluation of Valvular Disease and Ventricular Function Using Artificial Intelligence from a Single Echocardiographic View
6. 2026 ESC Guidelines for the management of heart failure | European Heart Journal | Oxford Academic
7. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Detection and Management of Physiological Instability in Heart Failure: Results of the Randomized LINK-HF2 Trial.
8. Pragmatic Approaches to the Evaluation and Monitoring of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association