Correction to: BMC Med

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1257-1

The original article [1] contained two minor errors:

  1. 1)

    Author, Chee H. Ng’s middle initial was omitted;

  2. 2)

    The Competing Interests declaration omitted some information regarding author, Chee H. Ng.

These two errors have since been corrected.