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Correction to: Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy in critically ill adults: a meta-analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases volume 19, Article number: 1077 (2019) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 24 July 2017

Correction to: BMC Infect Dis

https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12879-017-2622-3

After publication of the original article [1], the authors have reported that the software developers had used a new amended version of the software called “v0.9.5.10” instead of “v0.9.5.5”, which is referred to in the original article.

Thus, the authors have conducted trial sequential analysis with new version of the software for the two continuous end-points. All corrections are following:

1. “v0.9.5.5” in the Trial sequential analysis (methods section) is corrected to “v0.9.5.10”.

2. The estimated required information size of Length of hospitalization (7161, results section) is corrected to “7242”.

3. Fig. 5 is below updated.

Fig. 5
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Effects of PCT-guided antibiotics therapy on ICU patients for the length of hospitalization. a Forest plots; b Trial sequential analysis

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The conclusions are as same as published in the original article.

[1] References: Zhang et al. BMC Infectious Diseases (2017) 17:514, DOI: 10.1186/s12879-017-2622-3

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  1. Zhang T, Wang Y, Yang Q, Dong Y. Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy in critically ill adults: a meta-analysis. BMC Infect Dis. 2017;17(1):514.

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  1. Department of Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710061, China

    Tao Zhang, Yan Wang, Qianting Yang & Yalin Dong

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Zhang, T., Wang, Y., Yang, Q. et al. Correction to: Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy in critically ill adults: a meta-analysis. BMC Infect Dis 19, 1077 (2019). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12879-019-4707-7

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