This Correction states that two authors will be added to the list of authors of the primary article (ID: 15664, link: https://hepatmon.com/en/articles/15664.html). Based on the official and definite decision made by the Ethics Department of Legal Medicine Organization of Iran, Tehran, IR Iran and approval of Iran National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Research (http://ethics.research.ac.ir/), it is cleared for the editorial board of the journal that the corresponding author (Abdorrasoul Malekpour) made this fault and two claimants authors (Mohammad Fazel Soltani and Morteza Hadizadeh) had the authorship criteria. To read more about the definite decision by the Legal Medicine Organization of Iran, please read below translation of the original letter (in Persian) [Ticket #401994]. Agreement of authors to add two new authors were obtained [Ticket #403497].
Therefore authors of the mentioned article are changed to:
● Old authors:
Mojtaba Mortazavi, Mohammad Zarenezhad, Seyed Moayed Alavian, Saeed Gholamzadeh, Abdorrasoul Malekpour, Mohammad Ghorbani, Masoud Torkzadeh Mahani, Safa Lotfi, Ali Fakhrzad
● Proposed new authors:
Mojtaba Mortazavi, Mohammad Zarenezhad, Seyed Moayed Alavian, Saeed Gholamzadeh, Abdorrasoul Malekpour, Mohammad Ghorbani, Masoud Torkzadeh Mahani, Safa Lotfi, Ali Fakhrzad, Mohammad Fazel Soltani, Morteza Hadizadeh
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From: Dr. Abbas Masjedi, CHief & Director of Legal Medicine Organization of Iran, Tehran, IR Iran
To: Prof. SM Alavian, editor in chief, Hepatitis Monthly
Subject: Authorship criteria of two claimants on the article published with ID: 15664 in Hepatitis Monthly
This is to certify that based on the final and definite decision made by the Ethics department of Legal Medicine Organization of Iran, Tehran, IR Iran and following all documents and reports provided from "Iran National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Research" (http://ethics.research.ac.ir/) as well as interviews with both parties and reviewing all documents, it is cleared that two claimants (MF Soltani and M Hadizadeh) had the authorship criteria in the mentioned publication. Besides, the corresponding author (A Malekpour) accepted his fault in this ethical malpractice and agreed to add their names in a correction article which will be linked to the primary article.
Kind Regards,
Prof. Seyed-Moayed Alavian,
Editor-in-Chief