Erratum to: Support Care Cancer (2016) 24:961–968

DOI: 10.1007/s00520-015-2951-y

The names of the members of the IOPS MS study Group was inverted in the original paper and is now corrected in this article.

The IOPS MS Study Group

Rocco Domenico Mediati6, Amanda Caruselli1, Andrea Costanzi2, Gennaro Russo3, Paola Bracchi4, Lucia Dodaro5, Viviana Contu8, Gianluca Fora8, Barbara Veronese10, Massimiliano Alu11, Bruno Chiurazzi12, Massimiliano Sgarlata13, Alma Kasa14, Emanuela Donelli15, Stefania Silvestro15, Carmela Romano17, Silvia Ghidoni18, Loredana Palermo19, Giovanni Maria Pisanu20, Luca Imperatori21, Sara Diacciati22, Boaz Gedaliahu Samolsky Dekel23, Emanuela Bruno24, Serena Saulle25, Marta Bonotto26, Stefano De santis27, Dario Tammaro28, Laura Ginocchi29, Mari Zampieri31, Iacopo Fioroni32, Gloria Gallo33, Benhaz Saber33.

Mario Dauri7, Mario Airoldi8, Giuseppe Azzarello9, Mauro Bandera10, Livio Blasi11, Giacomo Carteni12, Veruska Costanzo13, Daniela Degiovanni14, Flavio Fusco15, Vittorio Guardamagna16, Vincenzo Iaffaioli17, Marzia Lazzari7, Simeone Liguori18, Vito Lorusso19, Sergio Mameli20, Rodolfo Mattioli21, Teresita Mazzei22, Rita Maria Melotti23, Valentino Menardo24, Danilo Miotti25, Stefano Moroso26, Silvia Natoli7, Remo Orsetti27, Alfonso Papa28, Sergio Ricci29, Alessandro Fabrizio Sabato7, Elvira Scelzi30, Michele Sofia31, Giuseppe Tonini32, Alessandro Valle33.

6Pain Relief, Palliative Care, Oncology Department, Careggi Hospital, Florence Primary Care Unit, ASL RME, Rome,

7Emergency care, Critical care Medicine, pain Medicine and Anesthesiologydepartement, Tor Vergata University of Rome

82nd Medical Oncology Division, Cittàdella Salute e dellaScienza Hospital of Turin, Turin

9Dip SpecialitàMediche, UOCOncologiaedEmatologiaOncologica; ASL 13 Mirano, Venezia, Italia

10Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII - Unit of Paliative Care and Pain Therapy, Bergamo, Italy

11Medical Oncology Unit, ARNAS Civico, Palermo

12Medical Oncology, A.O.R.N A. Cardarelli, Naples

13Palliative Care Unit, SAMO ONLUS, Catania

14Palliative Care Unit, Ospedale S. Spirito, CasaleMonferrato, Italy

15SSD Cure Palliative Dipartimento Cure PrimarieedAttivitàDistrettuali ASL3 Genovese

16UnitàOperativa di Cire Palliative e Terapia del dolore – IRCCS IstitutoEuropeo di Oncologia (IEO) - Milano, Italia

17Abdominal Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, IRCCS Foundation Pascale, Naples

18Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII - Unit of Palliative Care and Pain Therapy, Bergamo, Italy

19Medical Oncology Unit, National Cancer Research Centre “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari

20Pain Therapy Unit, BA. Businco^ Hospital, ASL 8, Cagliari, Italy

21S. Croce Hospital, Medical Oncology Unit, Fano - Pesaro, Italy

22Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Oncology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence

23Department of Medicine and Surgery Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna

24StrutturaSempliceAlgologia, A.O. S. Croce e Carle, Cuneo, Italy

25Salvatore Maugeri, Foundation IRCCS, Pavia, Italy

26Medical Oncology, University Hospital S. Maria dellaMisericordia, Udine, Italy

27Pain Medicine Unit, S. Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome

28Pain Relief, A.O. Dei Colli, Monaldi Hospital, Naples

29Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Oncology, S. Chiara University Hospital, Pisa

30U.O OncologiaMedica, P.O. Castelfranco Veneto- Treviso, Italy

31U.O.C. Cure Palliative, Hospice e Medicina del Dolore. P.O di GarbagnateM.se, Milano

32Department of Medical Oncology, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome

33Cure Palliative, Fondazione FARO, Torino