Correction to: BMC Pulm Med 20, 261 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-020-01293-6

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors flagged that their article had published with ‘MD’ erroneously included in the names of all the authors.

This has since been corrected in the published article and the corrected names may be found in this correction.

The publisher apologizes for any inconvenience caused.