Erratum to: Thoracic ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in adults: a meta-analysis
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Erratum After publication of the original article [1], it came to the publisher’s attention that figure 2, associated with the Authors Response, had been accidently omitted. The original article has been corrected to include this figure. A citation to the figure has been inserted in the following sentence, “...our revised estimates yielded an overall sensitivity of 92 % (95 % CI 90 %-94 %) and specificity of 92 % (95 % CI 90 %-94 %; Fig. 2)...”
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دوره 16 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015