We regret that errors appeared in table 1 and figure 1 of the above manuscript. Corrected copies of the table and figure are presented below, along with a description of the errors.
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Table 1–
Baseline characteristics of the participants of the Dutch–Belgian Randomised Controlled Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NELSON trial) and the respondents of the subcohort#
Figure 1–
Study flowchart. NELSON: Dutch–Belgian Randomised Controlled Lung Cancer Screening Trial; CT: computed tomography.
In table 1, the percentage of the test indeterminate group who started smoking at >20 yrs of age was incorrectly reported as 15.2%. This should have been presented as 19.6%. A corrected copy of the table is presented above.
In figure 1, the final data set used for analysis for the test negative group was incorrectly reported as 419. The correct number was 519. A corrected copy of the figure is presented above.
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