Correction to: Ethical considerations in conducting surgical research in severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis (World Journal of Emergency Surgery (2019) 14 (39) DOI: 10.1186/s13017-019-0259-9)

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The original article [1] contained a typo in author, Federico Coccolini's name. Author details 1Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. 2Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. 3Regional Trauma Services, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Canada. 4University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA. 5Research Facilitation Analytics (DIMR), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 6Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 7Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE. 8Surgical Services John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. 9Department of Abdominal Surgery, Abdominal Center, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. 10Emergency Surgery Department, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy. 11General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery dept, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy. 12Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy. 13Unit of General and Emergency Surgery, Bufalini Hospital of Cesena, Cesena, Italy. 14Department of Critical Care and Department of Surgery, NSHA- Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, 1276 South Park Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2Y9, Canada. 15Division of Trauma Surgery, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil. 16Department of Surgery, Acute Care Surgery, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School on Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 17Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 18Department of Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 19EG23 Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta T2N 2 T9, Canada. This has now been corrected.