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Correction to: Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial)

The Original Article was published on 13 November 2018

Correction to: Implementation Science (2018) 13:142

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-018-0823-9

Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported a number of errors which are given below.

The published article contained a discrepancy in Table 3 between the PDF and HTML versions of the article. In the PDF version Table 3 was missing a row as shown below:

Table 3 Data collected for process evaluation

Table 3 should in fact contain four rows as in the HTML version:

Table 3 Data collected for process evaluation

Furthermore, Fig. 4 was condensed upon submission, which resulted in half the data lines losing their legends in both the HTML and PDF version. Figure 4 originally appeared as follows:

Fig. 4
figure 1

Clinical processes focussed on by hospital teams during EPOCH. Legend: CT, computer-aided tomography; WHO, World Health Organization; VTE, venous thrombo-embolism

The correct version of Fig. 4 is:

Fig. 4
figure 2

Clinical processes focussed on by hospital teams during EPOCH. Legend: CT, computer-aided tomography; WHO, World Health Organization; VTE, venous thrombo-embolism

Furthermore, the names of several members of the EPOCH trial group were not processed correctly and should have been processed as follows (Given Name, Family Name):

  • Mike Bradburn

  • Fiona McMenemie

  • Jason Cupitt

  • Robert Thompson

  • Nick Harper

  • Simon Sleight

  • Belinda Cornforth

The authors also noticed they submitted an incorrect list of authors and the correct list is shown below:

EPOCH Trial Group:

Abdel Omer; Abhiram Sharma; Abigail Patrick; Adam Paul; Adam Wolverson; Adrian Fawcett; Adrian Jennings; Ajaya Mull; Ajit Abraham; Ajit Sivasankaranand; Alan Girling; Alan Morrison; Alastair Ankers; Alastair Rose; Alexandra Scott; Alexandra Williams; Alison Hool; Alison Pickford; Alistair Roy; Alistair Steel; Alister Myers; Almas Rehman; Amanda McCairn; Amanda Stevens; Amir Rafi; Amira Girgis; Amit Shukla; Ana Alegria; Andreas Brodbeck; Andreou Prematie; Andrew Brennan; Andrew Burtenshaw; Andrew Claxton; Andrew Lindner; Andrew Miller; Andrew Thorniley; Andrew White; Andy Thacker; Anil Hermandes; Anita Jhamatt; Anita Sugavanam; Anitha Holtham; Anjay Talwar; Ann Thomson; Anne Scase; Anthony Gordon; Anthony Parsons; Arnab Bhowmick; Arnth Engel; Ash Prabhudesai; Ashok Raj; Asif Jah; Avninder Chana; Ayan Banerjea; Ayodele Obideyi; Babu Muthuswamy; Bala Maiya; Banwari Agarwal; Barclay Tofte; Belinda Cornforth; Beth Hale; Biju Aravind; Brenda Stacey; Brennan Kahan; Britta O'Carroll-Kuehn; Bruce Gibson; Carl Waldmann; Carmen Correia; Carol Mcarthur; Carol Peden; Carolyn Tarrant; Carolyn Way; Catherine Farrow; Catherine Harden; Catherine Jardine; Catherine Pitman; Catherine Rimmer; Charles Cartwright; Charles Knowles; Chitre Vivek; Chloe Rochester; Chris Coldwell; Chris Dawson; Chris Homer; Chris Lewis; Chris Nutt; Chris Thorn; Chris Wilson; Christine Boyd; Christine Bronder; Christopher Macklin; Clare Stapleton; Colin Pow; Craig Lyness; Craig Morris; Dale Vimalchandran; Damian Laba; Dan Broad; Dan Broad; Dan Freshwater-Turner; Daniel Conway ; Daren Subar; Dave Murray; David Bottomley; David Browell; David Cromwell; David Gerrard; David Humes; David Inglis; David Kocman; David Melville; David Monk; David Murray; David Pogson; David Riddington; David Saunders; David Stanley; Davina Ross-Anderson; Dawn Hales; Dean Millican; Debbie Shaw; Denzil May; Dewi Williams; Dhiraj Ali; Diane Monkhouse; Diane Murray; Dileep Lobo; Dipankar Mukherjee; Dolores Mateo; Dom Hurford; Dominic Sebastian; Donna Doyle; Duncan Wells; Edward Curtis; Edward Lams; Edyta Niebrzegowska; Elizabeth Hall; Elizabeth Harwood; Emanuel Cirstea; Emma Brennan; Emma Davis; Emma Durant; Emma Leno; Erin Mcilveen; Essam El-Damatty; Esther Cook; Ewen Griffiths; Ewen Harrison; Fabian Cook; Faisal Baig; Fan Yang; Fanus Dreyer; Fenella Welsh; Ferdinand Adams; Fiona McMenemie; Flavia Menezes; Flora Bailey; Fran Haigh; Frances Mosley; Francesca Rubulotta; Frankie Dorman; Gabriele Marangoni; Gail Stark; Gail Williams; Gareth Ackland; Gareth Moncaster; Gary Minto; Gavin Bryce; Geoff Watson; Georgia Knight; Gerry Richardson; Gethin Williams; Gill Tierney; Gillian O'Connell; Giovanni Brescia; Glen Arnold; Glenn Robert ; Gordon Forbes; Gordon Milne; Graham Martin; Graham Wilson; Grainne O’Dwyer; Grant Sanders; Greg Lawton; Gudrun Kunst; Guy Finch; Guy Nash; Guy Rousseau; Hamish Noble; Hannah Smith; Harjeet Narula; Hazel Stuart; Heather Pratt; Helen Agostini; Helen Black; Helen Howes; Helen Langton; Helen Porter; Helen Reed; Helena Stafford; Hitesh Patel; Huw Davis; Iain Anderson; Iain Christie; Ian Clement; Ilona Raulusaite; Inga Misane; Ingeborg Welters; Isabella Karat; Jack Carmichael; Jack Parry Jones; Jagdeep Singh; James Bromilow; James Brown; James Burrow; James Harris; James Kirby-Bott; James Limb; Jamie Greenwood; Jan Hanousek; Jane Blazeby; Janindra Warusavitarne; Jason Cupitt; Jay Gokhale; Jay Susarla; Jennifer Edwards; Jennifer Spimpolo; Jenny McLachan; Jenny Ritzema; Jenny Wright; Jens Full; Jeremy Marwick; Jessica Thrush; Jigna Modha; John Abercrombie; John Corson; John Griffith; John Hopper; John Mackinnon; John Tansley; John Wells; Jonathan Mccullough; Jonathan Paddle; Jonathon Barker; Jonathon Mole; Jonny Wilkinson; Jose Lourtie; Josef Watfah; Joseph Silsby; Jost Mullenheim; Julian Bion; Julian Sonksen; Julian Stone; Julie Colley; Julie Furneval; Julie Wakeford; Julie Wollaston; Justin Kirk-Bayley; Justin Waring; Justin Woods; Jyrki Karvonen; Kaighan Lynne; Kamal Aryal; Karan Verma; Karen Burns; Karen Simeson; Karl Blenk; Karl Blenk; Karthik Surendran; Karvonen Jyrki; Kate Carey; Kate Rivett; Kate Wong; Katherine Allen; Kathryn Cain; Kathryn Gill; Katie Cooke; Keiarash Jovestani; Kenneth Adegoke; Kerwei Tan; Kevin Rooney; Kevin Sim; Khaled Razouk; Kim Jemmet; Kirosh Shankar; Kirsty Baillie; Kirsty Everingham; Krishnamurthy Somasekar; Kumar Panikkar; Lampros Liasis; Laura Fitton; Laura Graham; Laura Perrin-Brown; Laura Rooney; Lawrence Wilson; Lee Baldwin; Leilani Cabreros; Liam Hudson; Linda Graham; Linden Baxter; Lindsay Bailey; Lorna Burrows; Louise Bell; Lynn Stewart; Lynn Taylor; Lynsey Kightly; Magdy Khater; Magen Schwarz; Maitra Ishaan; Majed Al Shama; Makvana Sonia; Malcolm Sim; Malcolm Watters; Mallikarjunappa Satisha; Manab Mohanty; Mandeep Phull; Mansoor Akhtar; Mansoor Sange; Marcus Wood; Maria Bews-Hair; Maria Lawson; Marion Obichere; Mark Blunt; Mark Cartmell; Mark Coleman; Mark Edwards; Mark Henwood; Mark Munro; Mark Pulletz; Mark Snazelle; Mark Watson; Mark Wilkinson; Marta Campbell; Marta Januszewska; Martin Leuwer; Martin Northey; Martin Stotz; Martyn Cain; Massimo Varcada; Matt Gardner; Matt Outram; Matthew Gaughan; Matthew Tutton; Maurizio Cecconi; Megan Griffiths; Meghna Sharma; Melanie Tan; Michael Chadwick; Michael Crabtree; Michael Gillies; Michael Karlikowski; Michael Machesney; Michael Martin; Michael Protopapas; Mike Bradburn; Mike Gay; Mike Grocott; Miqdad Asaria; Monty Mythen; Nabil El-Masry; Nabua Gerstina; Nada Hadi; Nandita Divekar; Nat Natarajan; Natalie Dickinson; Nathan Borgeaud; Nathan Pushpa; Nazar Abdul; Nazzia Mirza; Neil Cruickshank; Neil Flint; Neil Kukreja; Neil Smith; Nicholas Watson; Nick Bunker; Nick Harper; Nick Mason; Nick Watson; Nicola Cook; Nicola Lythell; Nicola Radford; Nicola Stanix; Nicole Robin; Nigel Hollister; Nigel Suggett; Niko Van De Velde; Nikolaos Makris; Obioha Ukoumunne; Olga Tucker; Oliver Hill; Oliver Zuzan; Oluremi Odejinmi; Omar Faiz; Otto Mohr; Paddy Collins; Panna Patel; Pasupathy Raju; Paul Harrison; Paul Hayden; Paul Mclaren; Paul Noble; Paul O'Loughlin; Paul Ziprin; Pedro Cunha; Peeyush Kumar; Peter Alexander; Peter Chan; Peter Davies; Peter Fitzgerald; Peter Holt; Peter Lamb; Peter Richardson; Phil Dodd; Phil Hopkins; Phillippa Pemberton; Phoebe Bodger; Pieter Bothma; Piroska Toth-Tarsoly; Preeti Kuduvalli; Qamar Iqbal; Rachael Craven; Rachel Bartlett; Rachel Evley; Rai Kuldip; Raj Patel; Rajesh Dumpala; Rajpal Dhingsa; Rakhee Visavadia; Raman Guruswamy; Ramani Moonesinghe; Rame Sunthareswaran; Ramesh Rajagopal; Ranjit Ganepola; Raoul Benlloch; Ravi Mahajan; Razeen Mahroof; Rich Gibbs; Richard Hartopp; Richard Haslop; Richard Howard-Griffin; Richard Lilford; Richard Morgan; Richard Pugh; Richard Stevenson; Richard Wharton; Ricky Lewis; Rob Chambers; Robert DeBrunner; Robert Shawcross; Robert Sutcliffe; Roger Townsend; Roshan Lal; Rovan D'souza; Rowena Felipe; Roy Fernandes; Rupert Pearse; Ruth Griffin; Ruth Thomas; Sally Kerry; Sally Roth; Sam Andrews; Sam Waddy; Samer Doughan; Sami Farhat; Sami Ijaz; Sandeep Varma; Sanjay Wijeykoon; Sanjiv Patel; Sara Pick; Sarada Gurung; Sarah Beavis; Sarah Bowery; Sarah Buckley; Sarah Downey; Saravanna Sagadai; Satish Singh; Savvas Papagrigoriadis; Sean Cope; Sean McAfee; Sean Mcmullan; Sean Tighe; Senthil Nadarajavan; Sergei Vaganov; Shameem Sarfi; Sharon Drake; Sheshagiri Bengeri; Shrisha Shenoy; Shubha Vashisht; Sian Bhardwaj; Sid Riddington; Simon Bailey; Simon Fletcher; Simon Gibson; Simon Harris; Simon Hester; Simon Howell; Simon Parrington; Simon Sleight; Simon Smart; Simon Walker; Singh Gursevak; Somi Desikan; Sophie Noblett; Stacy Hodges; Stas Janokowski; Stefan Pulsa; Stelios Chatzimichail; Stella Vig; Stephanie Bell; Stephanie Brown; Stephen Baxter; Stephen Brett; Stephen Harris; Stephen Lake; Steve Fletcher; Steve Hutchinson; Steven Henderson; Stewart Prestwich; Stuart Mercer; Sudha Garg; Surjait Singh; Susan Dowling; Susan Jain; Susan Moug; Susan Tyson; Susie Baker; Syed Iftikhar; Tabitha Tanqueray; Taj Saran; Tamas Szakmany; Tamsin Rope; Tamzin Cuming; Tanuja Shah; Tariq Hussein; Tezas Stergios; Therese Murray; Thomas Evans; Thomas Medici; Thomas Parker; Tim Campbell-Smith; Tim Geary; Tim Harvard; Tim Stephens; Tim White; Tom Abbott; Tom Edwards; Tom Morgan-Jones; Tom Owen; Tomas Jovaisa; Una McNelis; Valerie Hilton; Vamsi Velchuru; Vanessa Linnett; Vanessa Tucker; Veena Naik; Verity Calder; Victoria Banks; Vishal Patil; Vivek Chitre; Vlad Kushakovsky; Wael Khalaf; Wayne Wrathall; Will Brady; Xavier Escofet; Yasser Mohsen; Ying Hu; Zakaulla Belagodu.

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  1. Stephens TJ, et al. Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial). Implement Sci. 2018;13:142. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-018-0823-9.

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Stephens, T.J., Peden, C.J., Pearse, R.M. et al. Correction to: Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial). Implementation Sci 13, 148 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-018-0840-8

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