This is a correction to: Carla Cuevas, Neha Batura, Luh Putu Lila Wulandari, Mishal Khan, Virginia Wiseman, Improving antibiotic use through behaviour change: a systematic review of interventions evaluated in low- and middle-income countries, Health Policy and Planning, Volume 36, Issue 5, June 2021, Pages 754–773, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab021.
In the published version of this manuscript, some of the papers listed in Table 3 and Table 4 were inadvertently omitted from the reference list. The missing references are provided below, along with corrections to the citation of Hadiyono JE, Suryawati S, Danu SS, Santoso B. and Yang, L. et al. in Table 3.
These details have been corrected only in this correction notice to preserve the version of record.
Missing references from Table 3:
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Hadiyono JE, Suryawati S, Danu SS, Santoso B. Interactional group discussion: results of a controlled trial using a behavioural intervention to reduce the use of injections in public health facilities. Social science & medicine. 1 April 1996;42(8):1177–83. This should be referred to as Hadiyono et al. (1996) in the table.
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