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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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  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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