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Correction to: Validation of the modified Skåne emergency department assessment of patient load (mSEAL) model for emergency department crowding and comparison with international models; an observational study

BMC Emergency Medicine volume 21, Article number: 49 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 22 February 2021

BMC Emerg Med 21, 21 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-021-00414-6

It was highlighted that in the original article [1] the Ethics approval and consent to participate section was incorrect. This Correction article shows the incorrect and correct Ethics approval and consent to participate section. The original article has been updated.

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Ethics approval and consent to participate.

The study was approved by the regional ethics committé at Linköping University and Karolinska institutet.

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Ethics approval and consent to participate.

The part of the study pertaining to the Linköping University Hospital and Motala Community Hospital was approved by the regional ethics committee at the county of Östergötland. The data from the Karolinska Hospital in Huddinge and Solna was part of a quality improvement initiative only including anonymised data, and as such is exempt from ethical approval in Sweden.

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  1. Wretborn, et al. Validation of the modified Skåne emergency department assessment of patient load (mSEAL) model for emergency department crowding and comparison with international models; an observational study. BMC Emerg Med. 2021;21:21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-021-00414-6.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Local Health Care Services in Central Östergötland, Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden

    Jens Wretborn & Daniel B. Wilhelms

  2. Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Jens Wretborn & Ulf Ekelund

  3. Enköping Hospital, Region Uppsala, Sweden

    Håkan Starkenberg

  4. Department of Emergency Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

    Håkan Starkenberg

  5. Department of Emergency and Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Thoralph Ruge

  6. Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Thoralph Ruge

  7. Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Daniel B. Wilhelms

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Wretborn, J., Starkenberg, H., Ruge, T. et al. Correction to: Validation of the modified Skåne emergency department assessment of patient load (mSEAL) model for emergency department crowding and comparison with international models; an observational study. BMC Emerg Med 21, 49 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-021-00448-w

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