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Correction to: Methods for trustworthy nutritional recommendations NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations and accessible Evidence summaries Composed of Systematic reviews): a protocol

BMC Medical Research Methodology volume 19, Article number: 240 (2019) Cite this article

The original article was published in BMC Medical Research Methodology 2018 18:162

Correction to: BMC Med Res Methodol (2018) 18:162

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0621-8

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported a change in the ‘Competing interests’ section as described below.

‘Competing interests’ in the original article:

  • BCJ, PAC, POV and GG are members of the GRADE working group. Remaining authors declare no competing interests.

Revised ‘Competing interests’:

  • BCJ, PAC, POV and GG are members of the GRADE working group. In 2015, BCJ received funding from the International Life Science Institute to assess the methodological quality of nutrition guidelines using internationally accepted GRADE and AGREE guideline standards for a study titled “The Scientific Basis of Guideline Recommendations on Sugar Intake: A Systematic Review” [2]. The remaining authors declare no potential competing interests.

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    Johnston BC, Alonso-Coello P, Bala MM, et al. Methods for trustworthy nutritional recommendations NutriRECS (nutritional recommendations and accessible evidence summaries composed of systematic reviews): a protocol. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2018;18:162. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0621-8.

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    Erickson J, Sadeghirad B, Lytvyn L, Slavin J, Johnston BC. The Scientific Basis of Guideline Recommendations on Sugar Intake: A Systematic Review. Ann Intern Med. 2017;166(4):257–67. https://doi.org/10.7326/M16-2020.

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  1. Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    • Bradley C. Johnston
    • , Regina El Dib
    •  & Robin W. M. Vernooij
  2. Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
    • Bradley C. Johnston
    • , Pablo Alonso-Coello
    • , Dena Zeraatkar
    •  & Gordon H. Guyatt
  3. Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre Barcelona, Biomedical Research Institute San Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
    • Pablo Alonso-Coello
    • , Montserrat Rabassa
    •  & Claudia Valli
  4. CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
    • Pablo Alonso-Coello
  5. Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Hygiene and Dietetics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
    • Malgorzata M. Bala
  6. Cochrane Consumer and Honorary Patron of the Guidelines International Network, Wellington, New Zealand
    • Catherine Marshall
  7. Institute of Science and Technology, Unesp - Univ Estadual Paulista, São José dos Campos, Brazil
    • Regina El Dib
  8. Department of Research, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Robin W. M. Vernooij
  9. Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    • Per O. Vandvik
  10. Department of Medicine, Innlandet Hospital Trust-division, Gjøvik, Norway
    • Per O. Vandvik
  11. Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
    • Gordon H. Guyatt
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Johnston, B.C., Alonso-Coello, P., Bala, M.M. et al. Correction to: Methods for trustworthy nutritional recommendations NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations and accessible Evidence summaries Composed of Systematic reviews): a protocol. BMC Med Res Methodol 19, 240 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-019-0888-4

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