Correction
The authors would like to apologise for not including Tracey P. Koehlmoos as an author on this work [1]. She was involved in the conception and design of the study and should have been included in the author list. This has now been corrected and the author list, authors’ contribution and competing interests sections have been updated as below:
Footnotes
The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/1471-2458-14-547
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors’ contributions
JU, TK, NA, and DSA were involved in developing the concept and designing of the study. JU, LN, NA, and DSA involved in implementation of the study, analysis of data, and writing of the manuscript. HS was involved in analysis of qualitative data and writing of the manuscript. JU and AHC were also involved in the collection and processing of data. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Contributor Information
Md Jasim Uddin, Email: jasim@icddrb.org.
Nurul Alam, Email: nalam@icddrb.org.
Tracey P Koehlmoos, Email: drtraceykoehlmoos@gmail.com.
Haribondhu Sarma, Email: hsarma@icddrb.org.
Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury, Email: asheq.haider@icddrb.org.
Dewan S Alam, Email: dsalam@icddrb.org.
Louis Niessen, Email: L.Niessen@liverpool.ac.uk.
References
- 1.Uddin MJ, Alam N, Sarma H, Chowdhury MAH, Alam DS, Niessen L. Consequences of hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, healthcare-seeking behaviors of patients, and responses of the health system: a population-based cross-sectional study in Bangladesh. BMC Public Health. 2014;14:547. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-547. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Pre-publication history
- The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/14/823/prepub