Correction to: BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2022) 22:124 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-01898-z

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors flagged that the authors Xianqiu Chen and Jie Luo had erroneously not been marked as equal contributors in the article.

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