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. 2020 Mar 23;10:5514. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62322-2

Author Correction: Personalized Risk Assessment in Never, Light, and Heavy Smokers in a prospective cohort in Taiwan

Xifeng Wu 1,✉,#, Chi Pang Wen 2,3,#, Yuanqing Ye 1, MinKwang Tsai 2,3, Christopher Wen 4, Jack A Roth 5, Xia Pu 1, Wong-Ho Chow 1, Chad Huff 1, Sonia Cunningham 1, Maosheng Huang 1, Shuanbei Wu 2,3, Chwen Keng Tsao 6, Jian Gu 1, Scott M Lippman 7
PMCID: PMC7090032  PMID: 32251345

Correction to: Scientific Reports 10.1038/srep36482, published online 02 November 2016

This Article contains an error in the Introduction.

The text,

“On the other hand, although LDCT could reduce mortality by 20%, the high false positive rate (96.4%) observed in the NLST calls for more accurate risk stratification among heavy smokers.”

should read:

“On the other hand, although LDCT could reduce mortality by 20%, the high number of false positives within the positive results (96.4%) observed in the NLST calls for more accurate risk stratification among heavy smokers.”


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