Correction to: Systematic review and meta-analysis of public hospital efficiency studies in Gulf region and selected countries in similar settings.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s12962-019-0185-4.].

Correction to: Cost Eff Resour Alloc (2019) 17:17 10.1186/s12962-019-0185-4

Please note that following publication of the original article [1], two errors have been flagged by the authors.

Firstly, the article has been processed with the wrong article type: it is not a ‘Review’, but rather a ‘Research article’.

Secondly, the initial of the corresponding author’s middle name is missing in the original article; please see the corrected name in the author list of this Correction.