Erratum to: Epidemiology of burn injuries in Nepal: a systemic review

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Erratum After the publication of this article [1] the editor noticed some erroneous ‘n’ values in the sub-headings of Table 2. The original article has been updated to omit these values. The correct updated version of the table is also shown below. Table 2 Mechanism of burn injury in Nepal Study Age group Total patient number, n Flame burn(%) Scald burn(%) Electric burn(%) Contact burn(%) Chemical burn(%) Others(%) Liu et al. [5] All ages 237 152(64.1) 67(28.3) 9(3.8) 1(0.4) 3(1.3) 5(2.1) Shrestha et al. [8] Pediatrics 22 10(45.4) 12(54.5) – – – – Poudel-Tandukar et al. [9] Pediatrics 350 125(35.7) 187(53.4) – 36(10.3) – 2(0.6) Chalise et al. [10] All ages 50 33(66.0) 8(16.0) 7(14.0) – 2(4.0) – Dahal et al. [6] All ages 100 64(64.0) 21(21.0) 14(14.0) – 1(1.0) – Rai et al. [11] All ages 78 48(61.5) 15(19.2) 11(14.1) – – 4(5.1) Gupta et al. [29] All ages 54 21(38.9) 32(59.3) – – – 1(1.9) Sharma et al. [7] All ages 819 633(77.3) 69(8.4) 104(12.7) 2(0.2) 5(0.6) 6(0.7)