Correction to: BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2021) 21:388 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-021-01754-6

Following publication of the article [1], the authors flagged that the first and last names of the authors had been erroneously swapped in the author list.

The author list has since been corrected in the published article and the corrected author list may be seen in this correction.