Correction: BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 24, 83 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-06276-7.

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in the references and in Fig. 1.

First, the name and author year of one of studies used in discussion section is not correct.

  • The incorrect citation is: Gersham et al. (2014)

  • The correct citation is: Gersham et al. (2016) which refers to reference [22] in the list.

Second, reference [22] has the same details with reference [31]. Reference [31] should be removed and renumber all affected references.

Third, the word irregular in Fig. 1 is not correctly written.

Below is the incorrect Fig. 1.

Fig. 1
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Study flow diagram from recruitment to analysis

Below is the correct Fig. 1.

Fig. 1
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Study flow diagram from recruitment to analysis

The original article has been corrected.