Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60750-8, published online 12 March 2020
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In the Results section under the subheading “Identifying differentially expressed language features prior to a hospital visit”
“Dictionary-based: Prior to ED visits, patients less more likely to post about leisure (d = − 0.225), associated words such as ‘family’, ‘fun’, ‘play’, ‘nap’, internet slang (netspeak) (d = − 0.374) words such as ‘:)’, ‘fb’, ‘ya’, ‘ur’, and informal language (d = − 0.345) with words such as ‘u’, ‘lol’, ‘smh’, ‘da’. Patients also use personal pronouns less (d = − 0.345) prior to ED visits compared to random time windows.”
should read:
“Dictionary-based: Prior to ED visits, patients were less likely to post about leisure (d = − 0.225) with words such as ‘fun’, ‘play’, ‘nap’, internet slang (netspeak) (d = − 0.374) such as ‘u’, ‘da’, ‘smh’, and informal language (d = − 0.345) with words such as ‘lol’, ‘:)’, ‘b’.”
In Table 2 under “Categories that decrease in usage before emergency visit”, the row “1st person singular” is a duplication of row “informal speech”.
In Table 2 under “Change in linguistic topics”, the row “even, still, tho, though, yet, blah” is a duplication of the row “kids, child, their, children, mother, father”.
The correct Table 2 appears below as Table 1
In Table 3 under “Categories that decrease in usage before inpatient visit”, the row “1st person singular (‘lol’, ‘:)’, ‘b’)” is a duplication of the row “Informal Speech (‘lol’, ‘:)’, ‘b’)”.
In Table 3 under “Change in Linguistic Topics”, the row “even, still, tho, yet, blah, mad” is a duplication of the row “kids, child, their, children, mother, father”.
In Table 3 under “Topics that decrease in usage before inpatient visit”, the row “better, feeling, little, hope, bit, type” is a duplication of the row “lol, ha, ctfu, lmao, funny, haha” and the row “no, what, matter, how, always, end” is a duplication of the row “:), show, crew, awesome, fashion, guys”.
The correct Table 3 appears below as Table 2
These corrections do not affect the conclusions of the Article.
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Guntuku, S.C., Schwartz, H.A., Kashyap, A. et al. Author Correction: Variability in Language used on Social Media Prior to Hospital Visits. Sci Rep 10, 11456 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68555-5
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