Scientific Reports 5: Article number: 9541; published online: 29 April 2015; updated: 08 October 2015.

This Article contains typographical errors in the flowchart of Fig. 1. The correct Fig. 1 appears below.

figure 1

In addition, there are typographical errors in the Methods section under subheading ‘Identification of Patients with Sjögren’s Syndrome’:

“These populations were matched with the three cohorts of 1 million random samples from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database (LHID2000, LHID2005 and LHID2010), which extracted 1 million random samples from 26 million individuals in the NHIRD in 2000, 2005 and 2010.”

should read:

“These populations were matched with the three cohorts of 1 million random samples from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database (LHID2000, LHID2005 and LHID2010), which extracted 1 million random samples from 23.4 million individuals in the NHIRD in 2000, 2005 and 2010.”

In the Results section:

“Sheng-Di-Huang” (raw Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch., 21.7%)”

should read:

“Sheng-Di-Huang” (raw Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch., 2.17%)”

And lastly, in Table 4, the ‘Frequency of prescription N (%)’ for Xuan-Shen ‘(2.98%)’ should read ‘522 (2.98%).’