Updates are available Correction dated 2022-01-07

Article History

Received: 23 October 2020

Revised: 18 February 2021

Accepted: 11 March 2021

First Online: 30 May 2021

Change Date: 7 January 2022

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-021-08489-2

Declarations

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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Carlos Canelo-Aybar.

: Elena Parmelli and Zuleika Saz-Parkinson are current employees of the Joint Research Centre, European Commission. Carlos Canelo-Aybar, Pablo Alonso-Coello, and David Rigau are employees of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Collaboration. Axel Gräwingholt, Annette Lebeau, Elsa Pérez Gómez and Miranda Langendam are members of the ECIBC Guidelines Development Group. Paolo Giorgi Rossi, as principal investigator of an independent study, funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, conducted negotiations with Hologic to obtain reagents at reduced price or for free; the reagents have not been used by Paolo Giorgi Rossi’s institutions; he is also member of the ECIBC Guidelines Development Group. Jessica Hanae Zafra-Tanaka and Alvaro Taype-Rondan were employees of the Institute for Health Technology Assessment and Research (IETSI) from the Peruvian Social Security at the time the study took place.

: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.

: Written informed consent was not required for this study because it is a systematic review.

: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because it is a systematic review.

: The studies included in this systematic review were all already published elsewhere. Their references and characteristics are reported within the manuscript.

: • retrospective (systematic review of already published studies)• performed at one institution