STOP-BANG is a clinically useful tool with high sensitivity that can be used to screen patients for moderate and severe OSA. Using cutoffs of 30 for BMI, 40 cm for neck circumference, and 50 years for age simplifies the application of the tool without affecting performance.

Unfortunately, there are some errors in the article which need to be corrected, and we apologise for any confusion which we have caused. These are as follows:1. Table 2 The number of patients who answered the questionnaire should read 319 ( rather than 314)Under this column, the percentage of males who answered the questionnaires should be 69% (rather than 70.5%) and the number of Chinese should be 76.4% (rather than 77.7%).(A transcription error of 314 instead of 319 resulted in the incorrect percentages of male and Chinese patients) 2. Abstract and Table 3 The values are for AHI ≥5, ≥15, ≥30 ( instead of >) 3. Table 4 The sensitivity of STOP-BANG for predicting AHI ≥15 should read 91.3 (85.6-95.1) instead of 91.1The online version of the original article can be found at http://dx.doi.

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