Correction to: Intensive Care Med https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5113-0

The article ECDC definitions and methods for the surveillance of healthcare‑associated infections in intensive care units, written by Diamantis Plachouras, Alain Lepape and Carl Suetens, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 24 May 2018 without open access.

With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 07 September 2018 to © The Author(s) 2018 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license and any changes made are indicated.

The original article has been corrected.