Correction: Evaluating older adults’ satisfaction with age-friendly hospitals services: insights from an Eastern Taiwan regional teaching hospital (BMC Geriatrics, (2025), 25, 1, (603), 10.1186/s12877-025-06286-w)

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Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that the Table 1 in the published article was incorrect. The correct table is given below. Incorrect table: Clinical parameters for the total sample and subdivided into anemic and non-anemic patients Parameter Reference1 (mean ± SD) All patients (N = 97) Non-anemic (n = 69) Anemic (n = 28) p-value Hemoglobin (g/dl) 12.00–16.00 12.79 (± 1.32) 13.40 (± 1.01) 11.28 (± 0.77) < 0.001 GNRI > 98 93.5 (6.32) 94.7 (± 6.11) 90.6 (± 5.94) 0.007 Erythrocytes (T/l) 3.80–5.20 4.42 (± 0.45) 4.59 (± 0.33) 4.02 (± 0.45) < 0.001 MCV (fl.) 78.00–98.00 88.94 (± 5.54) 89.44 (± 4.23) 87.71 (± 7.87) 0.082 MCH (pg) 27.00–33.00 28.96 (± 2.10) 29.22 (± 1.60) 28.33 (± 2.93) 0.061 MCHC (g/dl) 31.50–36.00 32.56 (± 1.00) 32.68 (± 0.86) 32.26 (± 1.25) 0.123 Hematocrit (%) 35.00–47.00 39.33 (± 3.93) 41.11 (± 3.05) 35.03 (± 2.02) < 0.001 Free iron (µg/dl) 37.00–145.00.00.00 70.55 (± 26.2) 76.37 (± 27.2) 56.51 (± 19.0) < 0.001 Transferrin (mg/dl) 200.00–310.00.00.00 219.0 (± 50.6) 221.3 (± 41.3) 213.3 (± 66.1) 0.171 Transferrin % 16.00–45.00 24.2 (± 10.1) 25.4 (± 09.9) 21.4 (± 10.1) 0.088 Ferritin (ng/ml) 15.00–150.00 152.4 (± 142.3) 157.3(± 145.3) 140.4 (± 136.9) 0.580 Albumin (g/dl) 3.35–5.29 3.54 (± 0.41) 3.62 (± 0.39) 3.37 (± 0.39) 0.008 Body weight (kg) - 67.04 (± 15.7) 67.84 (± 15.7) 65.07 (± 15.9) 0.306 CRP (mg/dl) < 0.5 0.84 (± 1.27) 0.79 (± 1.30) 0.96 (± 1.21) 0.219 Folic acid (ng/ml) 3.10–20.50 6.53 (± 3.87) 6.90 (± 4.28) 5.65 (± 2.44) 0.264 Vit. B 12 (pg/ml) 191.0–663.0 391.5 (± 222.5) 408.6 (± 249.6) 349.5(± 129.9) 0.348 BMI 26.79 (± 5.58) 27.12 (± 5.64) 25.97 (± 5.43) 0.257 MCV Mean corpuscular volume, MCH Mean cell hemoglobin concentration, MCHC Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, GNRI Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index, CRP C-reactive protein, BMI Body mass index Correct table: Respondent characteristics (N = 330) Variable % Age y/o, (mean ± sd) 75.38 ± 7.85 65–74 y/o 170 51.5 75–84 y/o 101 30.6 ≧ 85 y/o 59 17.9 Male 176 53.3 Female 154 46.7 Illiterate 88 26.7 Elementary school 170 51.5 Junior high school 36 10.9 Senior high school 19 5.8 Above College 17 5.2 Unemployed 295 89.4 Employed 35 10.6 Single/Divorced/Widowed 132 40.0 Married/cohabitation 198 60.0 No 47 14.2 Buddhism 58 17.6 Taoism 116 35.2 Christianity 82 24.8 Catholicism 27 8.2 Alone 51 15.5 With family 267 80.9 With friends/foreign caregivers 12 3.6 0 10 3.0 1 57 17.3 2 106 32.1 ≧ 3 157 47.6 Yes 92 27.9 No 238 72.1 1 162 49.1 2 81 24.5 3 30 9.1 ≧ 4 57 17.3 Internal Medicine 233 70.6 Surgical 97 29.4 Not enough 106 32.1 Fair 169 51.2 Enough 55 16.7 Poor 177 53.6 Fair 99 30.0 Good 54 16.4 Total dependency 35 10.6 Severe dependency 46 13.9 Moderate dependency 49 14.8 Slight dependency 13 3.9 Independency 187 56.7 Disabilities 195 59.1 Independency 135 40.9 No depression 225 68.2 Mild depression 69 20.9 Severe depression 36 10.9 The original article [1] has been corrected.