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Correction to: Systematic review and meta-analysis of public hospital efficiency studies in Gulf region and selected countries in similar settings

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation volume 18, Article number: 6 (2020) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 06 August 2019

Correction to: Cost Eff Resour Alloc (2019) 17:17 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-019-0185-4

Please note that following publication of the original article [1], two errors have been flagged by the authors.

Firstly, the article has been processed with the wrong article type: it is not a ‘Review’, but rather a ‘Research article’.

Secondly, the initial of the corresponding author’s middle name is missing in the original article; please see the corrected name in the author list of this Correction.

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  1. Alatawi AD, Ahmed S, Niessen L, Khan J. Systematic review and meta-analysis of public hospital efciency studies in Gulf region and selected countries in similar settings. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2019;17:17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-019-0185-4.

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  1. Health Economics Group, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, LSTM, Room 1966-215-206, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK

    Ahmed D. Alatawi, Sayem Ahmed, Louis Niessen & Jahangir Khan

  2. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Al-Jouf University, 2014, King Khaled Road, Sakakah, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed D. Alatawi

  3. Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Health System and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Sayem Ahmed & Jahangir Khan

  4. Health Economics and Policy Research Group, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sayem Ahmed & Jahangir Khan

  5. Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK

    Louis Niessen

  6. Department of International Health Systems, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA

    Louis Niessen

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Alatawi, A.D., Ahmed, S., Niessen, L. et al. Correction to: Systematic review and meta-analysis of public hospital efficiency studies in Gulf region and selected countries in similar settings. Cost Eff Resour Alloc 18, 6 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-020-0201-8

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