Correction: BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2022) 22:389 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-02188-4

Following publication of the original article, the authors flagged the following errors in the author list, affiliations information, and corresponding author information, respectively: (1) the names of the 8th and 9th authors had been inadvertently duplicated (as **nzhong Chen and Kangjie **e, respectively); (2) a 6th and a 7th affiliation were erroneously included, and these affiliations were based on information taken from affiliations 4 and 5, with the result that affiliations 4 and 5 were incomplete (in addition to there being a 6th and a 7th affiliation included in error); (3) the correspondence information of the corresponding authors (on the bottom-left of the article PDF) had been ordered the wrong way around, with **n-Zhong Chen's information being positioned first instead of that of Kang-Jie **e.

The published article has now been corrected and the corrected information may be seen in this erratum. The authors thank you for reading and apologize for any inconvenience caused.