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Erratum: Randomized controlled trial on drowning prevention for parents with children aged below five years in Bangladesh: a study protocol

The Original Article was published on 11 May 2015

After publication of our article [1], it was brought to our attention that we had omitted to acknowledge that parts of the text were directly reproduced from the “Global report on drowning: preventing a leading killer” by the World Health Organization [2] cited as reference 14 in the article and from “Efficacy of a text messaging (SMS) based smoking cessation intervention for adolescents and young adults: Study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial” by Haug et al. [3]. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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Hossain, M., Mani, K.K.C., Sidik, S.M. et al. Erratum: Randomized controlled trial on drowning prevention for parents with children aged below five years in Bangladesh: a study protocol. BMC Public Health 15, 898 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2169-4

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