Erratum to: Intern Emerg Med (2014) 9:427–434 DOI 10.1007/s11739-013-0955-5

Unfortunately, the given and family names of entire author group were incorrectly published in the original version. The correct given and family names should read as Deodato Assanelli, Andrea Ermolao, François Carré, Asterios Deligiannis, Klaus Mellwig, Mohamed Tahmi, Bruno Mario Cesana, Rosella Levaggi, Paola Aliverti, Sanjay Sharma, respectively.