We would like to correct errors found in our published study, “Surgical Loupes Worn by Orthopaedic Surgeons Are a Reservoir for Microorganisms”. In the Statistical Analysis section, we wrote: “Additionally, we used the Student’s t-test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test to detect differences in categorical bacterial growth between paired samples.” Using a Student’s t-test or Wilcoxon tests is not adequate for the analysis given that these were not continuous but rather categorical variables. After a statistical consultation, we determined that the better statistical test in this setting is the Mann-Whitney U test. Given that the data does not change, the medians and 95% confidence intervals for the comparisons (before and after surgical day, before and after alcohol wipe) do not change. The statistical results of the Mann-Whitney U test are as follows: For the before and after surgical day comparison, analysis of the data sets with the Mann-Whitney U test yields a U-value of 20 and given that the critical value of U at p < 0.05 is 20, the result remains significant at p < 0.05. The z-score is - 1.77604, yielding a p = 0.038. For the before and after alcohol wipe comparison, analysis of the data sets with the Mann-Whitney U test yields a U-value of 2.5 and given that the critical value of U at p < 0.05 is 5, the result remains significant at p < 0.05. The z-score is 2.40192, yielding a p = 0.02. As a result, our differences between these groups for both comparisons remain statistically different, although the p values change. Additionally, in the Discussion section, we wrote: “Lastly, we did not conduct clinical followup on the patients included in this study, and we describe a potential association of pathogen colonization with SSIs without demonstrating causation.” We intended to remove this sentence in the course of editing the paper but did not do so. The correct sentence should be: “Lastly, although particulate shedding from the loupes into the surgical field containing microorganisms could increase the risk of SSI, we did not assess SSI in the current study. Future studies should seek to evaluate the degree to which shedding of this sort might be clinically important, and if it is, to identify the best ways to mitigate it.” Finally, there was a typographical error in Table 1. Loupes of 2.5 magnification were used by 15 surgeons and those of 3.5 magnification were used by six surgeons, for a total of 21 surgeons. The authors apologize for the errors.