Correction to: Understanding Plain English Summaries: A Comparison of two Approaches to Improve the Quality of Plain English Summaries in Research

After publication of our article [1] it has come to our attention that Fig. 3 was accidentally omitted. In the section “Ease of reading”, the sentence “FRE scores were recorded for the original, author-revised and independently edited PES (Fig. 2).” should read “FRE scores were recorded for the original, author-revised and independently edited PES (Fig. 3).” Figure 3 and its legend appear below.

FRE score for summaries compared across three groups. Horizontal dashed line indicates an FRE of 50, which is approximately equivalent to a broadsheet newspaper [27]

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Affiliations

1. Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

   • Emma Kirkpatrick

2. Southampton Health Technology Assessment Centre (SHTAC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

   • Wendy Gaisford

3. National Institute for Health Research Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

   • Elaine Williams
   • , Elizabeth Brindley
   • , Doreen Tembo
   •  & David Wright

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Emma Kirkpatrick.

The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-017-0064-0.

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