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Correction: Effect of robot for medication management on home care professionals’ use of working time in older people’s home care: a non-randomized controlled clinical trial

The Original Article was published on 02 December 2023

Correction to: BMC Health Serv Res 23, 1344 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10367-0

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified errors in the Abstract, the Results section and Table 3.

Corrections (marked in bold):

  1. 1.

    Abstract (Results subsection): The total working time used for medication management considering the number of visits per day decreased from 54.2 min (95% CI 37.4–44.3 49.6–58.8) to 34.9 min (31.4–38.3), i.e., by slightly over 19 min (p < 0.001) in the IG group.

  2. 2.

    Results (‘Total amount of home visits and working time used for medication management’ subsection): The total working time used for medication management considering the number of visits per day decreased from 54.2 min (95% CI 37.4–44.3 49.6-58.8) to 34.9 min (31.4– 38.3), i.e., by slightly over 19 min (p < 0.001) in the IG group.

  3. 3.

    Table 3 (2nd column, 3.rd row): 54.2 (37.4–44.3 49.6-58.8)

The original article [1] has been corrected.

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  1. Kajander-Unkuri, et al. Effect of robot for medication management on home care professionals’ use of working time in older people’s home care: a non-randomized controlled clinical trial. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023;23:1344. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10367-0.

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Kajander-Unkuri, S., Vaismoradi, M., Katajisto, J. et al. Correction: Effect of robot for medication management on home care professionals’ use of working time in older people’s home care: a non-randomized controlled clinical trial. BMC Health Serv Res 24, 75 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10584-1

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