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The authors regret that Brian S. Alper was inadvertently omitted from the author byline in the original publication. The correct author list below now includes Brian S. Alper. His affiliations are: Computable Publishing LLC, Franklin, North Carolina, USA; Scientific Knowledge Accelerator Foundation, Franklin, North Carolina, USA. Corrected Author List: Miloslav Klugar a, Tamara Lotfi c,d, Andrea J. Darzi c,d, Marge Reinap f, Jitka Klugarová b, Lucia Kantorová g, Jun Xia a, Romina Brignardello-Petersen c,d, Andrea Pokorná j, Glen Hazlewood k, Zachary Munn l, Rebecca L. Morgan m, Ingrid Toews n, Ignacio Neumann o, Patraporn Bhatarasakoon p, Airton Tetelbom Stein q, Michael McCaul r, Alexander G. Mathioudakis s,t, Kristen E. D'Anci u, Grigorios I. Leontiadis v, Celeste Naude r, Lenny T. Vasanthan w, Joanne Khabsa c,d, M.Bala Malgorzata y,z, Reem Mustafa aa, Karen DiValerio Gibbs ab, Robby Nieuwlaat v, Nancy Santesso v, Dawid Pieper ac,ad, Saphia Mokrane ae,af, Israa Soghier ag, Wanchai Lertwatthanawilat p, Wojtek Wiercioch c,d, Shahnaz Sultan ah, Jana Rozmarinová a, Pavla Drapa?ová a, Yang Song ai, Marwa Amer aj, Yasser S. Amer ak, Shahab Sayfi al, Ilse M. Verstijnen an, Ein-Soon Shin ao, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson ap, Kevin Pottie aq, Alessandra Ruspi ar,as, Ana Maruši? at, K.M. Saif-Ur-Rahman au,av, Brian S. Alper az,ba, Maria X. Rojas aw, Elie A. Akl x, Holger J. Schünemann c,d,v,ar, for the GRADE Working Group Affiliations: a Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Czech GRADE Network, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic b Center of Evidence-based Education and Arts Therapies: A JBI Affiliated Group, Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, Prague, Czech Republic c World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada & McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada d Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada e Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada f Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark g Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic h Agency for Clinical Practice Guideline, Korean Academy of Medical Sciences, Seoul, South Korea i Division of Lifespan and Population Health, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK j Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic k Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada l Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact, School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia m School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA n Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany o School of Medicine, Universidad San Sebastian, Santiago, Chile p Thailand Center for Evidence-Based Health Care, Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand q Department of Public Health, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (Ufcspa), Porto Alegre, Brazil r Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa s Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK t North West Lung Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK u Sigma Health Consulting, LLC, McLean, VA, USA v Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada w Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India x Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon y Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland z Krakow GRADE Centre, Krakow, Poland aa Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA ab Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA ac Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School (Theodor Fontane), Institute for Health Services and Health System Research, Rüdersdorf, Germany ad Center for Health Services Research, Brandenburg Medical School (Theodor Fontane), Rüdersdorf, Germany ae Department of Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium af Working group Development of Primary Care Guidelines, Antwerpen, Belgium ag Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Brigham/Salem Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ah Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA ai Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Biomedical Research, Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain aj Medical/Critical Pharmacy Division, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ak College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia al Pediatrics Department, Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Research Chair for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia am Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil an Research and Development, National Health Care Institute, Zorginstituut, The Netherlands ao Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea ap European Research Executive Agency, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium aq Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada ar Clinical Epidemiology and Research Center (CERC), Humanitas University & Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Rita Levi Montalcini 4 - 20090 Pieve Emanuele, Milano, Italy as Physiotherapy Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy at Center for Evidence-based Medicine, Medicinski fakultet Sveucilista u Splitu, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia au College of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, University Galway, Galway, Ireland av Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland University of Galway, Galway, Ireland aw Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, The Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain ax Nottingham Ningbo GRADE Centre, School of Economics, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China ay China European Research Executive Agency, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium az Computable Publishing LLC, Franklin, North Carolina, USA ba Scientific Knowledge Accelerator Foundation, Franklin, North Carolina, USA The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. © 2025