Correction to: Malar J (2018) 17:239 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2391-5
Following publication of the original article [1], the author has flagged errors that affect the scientific content of the article.
The errors concern Table 2 (page 6), Table 5 (page 9) and Table 6 (page 11) of the published article.
Anzeige
Firstly, with concern to Table 2, the errors concern the ‘Totals’ provided in the table. Please find below (the correct version of) the table, with the corrected ‘Totals’ data highlighted in italics:
Table 2
Reasons for loss of long-lasting insecticide nets over a 2-year follow-up period in Ethiopia
Reason for LLIN loss | 6 months | 12 months | 18 months | 24 months | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
Known outcome of attrition or torn | |||||
Thrown away | 102 (40.0) | 301 (71.8) | 173 (74.9) | 62 (70.5) | 638 (64.2) |
Used for something else | 30 (11.8) | 58 (13.8) | 28 (12.1) | 22 (25.0) | 138 (13.9) |
Torn (pHI > 643) | 123 (48.2) | 60 (14.3) | 30 (13.0) | 4 (4.5) | 217 (21.9) |
Total | 255 (100) | 419 (100) | 231 (100) | 88 (100) | 993 (100) |
Unknown outcome of attrition | |||||
Given away | 260 (76.7) | 44 (45.8) | 11 (20.0) | 1 (12.5) | 316 (63.5) |
Lost to follow-upa | 52 (15.3) | 43 (44.8) | 26 (47.2) | 5 (62.5) | 126 (25.3) |
Stolen | 8 (2.4) | 9 (9.4) | 3 (5.5) | 2 (25.0) | 22 (4.4) |
Unknown reasons | 6 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (1.4) |
Otherb | 13 (3.8) | 0 (0.0) | 14 (25.5) | 0 (0.0) | 27 (5.4) |
Total | 339 (100) | 96 (100) | 55 (100) | 8 (100) | 498 (100) |
Overall total
|
594
|
515
|
286
|
96
|
1491
|
Regarding Tables 5 and 6, the error on the footnotes of the published tables is: “NA not applicable when P < 0.25”.
The footnotes on Tables 5 and 6 should read as: “NA not applicable when P > 0.25”.
Publisher’s Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Anzeige
Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.