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The Editor wishes to issue an expression of concern for this article [1].
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Contrary to the statement included in the article, ethics approval for the study was provided by Mekelle University, not Aksum University
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Contrary to the statement included in the article, the study was conducted between February 2016 and November 2016
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Contrary to the statement included in the article, the data used and analyzed during the current study are not available
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Kebede A, Gerensea H. Prevalence of needle stick injury and its associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia, 2016. BMC Res Notes. 2018;11:413. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3529-9.
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Kebede, A., Gerensea, H. Expression of Concern to: Prevalence of needle stick injury and its associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia, 2016. BMC Res Notes 14, 68 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05480-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05480-4