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Upon publication of the original article [1], it was noticed that on page 3 in Fig. 1, the textbox appearing with the word “methodological” should read “Identification”. This has now been acknowledged and corrected in this erratum. This has now been incorporated in the new Fig. 1 shown below.
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Mabikwa OV, Greenwood DC, Baxter PD, Fleming SJ. Assessing the reporting of categorised quantitative variables in observational epidemiological studies. BMC Health Serv Res. 2017;17(1):201.
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Mabikwa, O.V., Greenwood, D.C., Baxter, P.D. et al. Erratum to: Assessing the reporting of categorised quantitative variables in observational epidemiological studies. BMC Health Serv Res 17, 307 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2237-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2237-9