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.”
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