J Pediatr Res 2021;8(4):408-13
DOI: 10.4274/jpr.galenos.2021.67689
In the article entitled “The Risk Factors of Precocious Puberty in Girls: Is the Condition Related to Polychlorinated Biphenyls?”, which was published in the Journal of Pediatric Research in 2021 (J Pediatr Res 2021;8(4):408–413; DOI: 10.4274/jpr.galenos.2021.67689), the authors have recently noticed that the Informed Consent statement and Financial Disclosure were inadvertently reported incorrectly in the published version. In addition, the Funding Statement and Acknowledgments sections were unintentionally omitted.
The correct statements are provided below. We apologize for this error.
We sincerely apologize for this oversight and for any inconvenience it may have caused. The original published statements and the corrected versions are presented below.
Published on page 413:
-Ethics
-Ethics Committee Approval: The study was conducted after approval of the Ethics comittee of Ege University Faculty of Medicine (approval date: 29.12.2015; approval no: 15-11/4).
-Informed Consent: Retrospective study.
-Peer-review: Externally peer-reviewed.
-Authorship Contributions
Design: Ş.D., Data Collection or Processing: R.B.G.B., S.Ö., Ö.K., Ş.D., Writing: R.B.G.B., R.D.G.
-Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.
-Financial Disclosure: The authors declared that this study received no financial support.
Corrected statements on page 413:
(The corrected parts are given in bold)
-Ethics
-Ethics Committee Approval: The study was conducted after approval of the Ethics comittee of Ege University Faculty of Medicine (approval date: 29.12.2015; approval no: 15-11/4).
-Informed Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from the parents or legal guardians of the participants prior to participation. In addition, written informed consent was obtained from the parents or legal guardians for the publication of this paper.
-Peer-review: Externally peer-reviewed.
-Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Scientific Research Projects Unit of Ege University. This article was derived from the pediatric residency thesis of the author.
-Authorship Contributions
Design: Ş.D., Data Collection or Processing: R.B.G.B., S.Ö., Ö.K., Ş.D., Writing: R.B.G.B., R.D.G.
-Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.
-Financial Disclosure: This study was supported by the Scientific Research Projects Unit (BAP) of Ege University (project no: 6185).
