Correction to: BMC Neurol 21, 308 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-021-02340-3

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported errors in affiliations 1, 4 and 5.

Affiliation 1: Instead of “Department of Emergency, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China”, it should be “Department of Emergency, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China”.

Affiliation 4: Instead of “Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong Provincial Chest Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250013, China”, it should be “Department of Critical Care Medicine, Shandong Provincial Chest Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250013, China”.

Affiliation 5: Instead of “Department of Infectious Diseases, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China”, it should be “Department of Infectious Diseases, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China”.

The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.

The original article [1] has been updated.