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. 2019 Nov 1;14(11):e0224914. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224914

Correction: Smoking, alcohol use disorder and tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A dual co-morbidity burden that cannot be ignored

Beena Elizabeth Thomas, Kannan Thiruvengadam, S Rani, Dileep Kadam, Senthanro Ovung, Shrutha Sivakumar, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Mandar Paradkar, Nikhil Gupte, Nishi Suryavanshi, C K Dolla, Akshay N Gupte, Rewa Kohli, Neeta Pradhan, Gomathi Narayan Sivaramakrishnan, Sanjay Gaikwad, Anju Kagal, Kavitha Dhanasekaran, Andrea Deluca, Jonathan E Golub, Vidya Mave, Padmapriyadarshini Chandrasekaran, Amita Gupta; for the CTRIUMPH-RePORT India Study
PMCID: PMC6824559  PMID: 31675369

In the Methodology section, there is an error in the third sentence of the third paragraph. The correct sentence is: The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT-C), a 3-item screening questionnaire for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption was used to assess alcohol use [11].

In the Alcohol Use subsection of the Definitions subsection of the Methodology section, there is an error in the sentence. The correct sentence is: AUDIT-C was used to define alcohol misuse, those with a score of 8 or higher were defined as heavy alcohol misuse [13].

The questionnaire name AUDIT appears incorrectly throughout the article. The correct name is AUDIT-C.

There is an error in Reference 11. The correct reference is: Bush K, Kivlahan DR, McDonell MB, Fihn SD, Bradley KA. The AUDIT alcohol consumption questions (AUDIT-C): an effective brief screening test for problem drinking. Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project (ACQUIP). Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Arch Intern Med. 1998 Sep 14; 158(16):1789–95. PubMed PMID: 9738608.

There is an error in Reference 13. The correct reference is: Nayak, MB; Bond, JC; Cherpitel, C; Patel, V; Greenfield, TK; (2009) Detecting Alcohol-Related Problems in Developing Countries: A Comparison of 2 Screening Measures in India. Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. ISSN 0145-6008 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.01045.x

Reference

  • 1.Thomas BE, Thiruvengadam K, S. R, Kadam D, Ovung S, Sivakumar S, et al. (2019) Smoking, alcohol use disorder and tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A dual co-morbidity burden that cannot be ignored. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0220507 10.1371/journal.pone.0220507 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

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