Correction to: BMC Med 19, 24 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01900-1

The authors of the original article [1] wish to amend the text in the Study design sub-section of the Methods section.

The text in this section should instead state the following:

“A cohort study was conducted using electronic primary healthcare data from the IQVIA Medical Research Data (IMRD) that incorporates data supplied by THIN (The Health Improvement Network), a propriety database of Cegedim SA.”