Correction: BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2024) 24:276

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-024-03089-4

Following publication of the original article, it came to the authors’ attention that there was an error in the affiliation information: where it should say ‘Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University’, it said ‘Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong First Medical University’. The affiliation has since been corrected in the article. The authors thank you for reading and apologize for any inconvenience caused.