Sprague et al. Trials (2020) 21:821 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04767-4 CORRECTION Open Access Correction to: Cluster identification, selection, and description in Cluster randomized crossover trials: the PREP-IT trials Sheila Sprague1,2*, Taryn Scott1, Shannon Dodds1, David Pogorzelski1, Paula McKay1, Anthony D. Harris3, Amber Wood4, Lehana Thabane2, Mohit Bhandari1,2, Samir Mehta5, Greg Gaski6, Christina Boulton7, Francesc Marcano-Fernández8, Ernesto Guerra-Farfán9, Joan Hebden10, Lyndsay M. O’Hara3, Gerard P. Slobogean11 and on behalf of the PREP-IT Investigators Correction to: Trials 21, 712 (2020) http://orcid.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04611-9 Following publication of the original article [1], we Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA. 7Department of Orthopaedics, Banner Health and the University of Arizona-Tucson, Tucson, were notified that the PREP-IT Investigators were not AZ, USA. 8Orthopedic Department, Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari, Institut listed as contributors. They are all listed in Supplemen- d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí I3PT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, tary file 1 linked to this erratum. Sabadell, Spain. 9Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. 10Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Supplementary information 11 Department of Orthopaedics, University of Maryland, R Adams Cowley Supplementary information accompanies this paper at https://doi.org/10. Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD, USA. 1186/s13063-020-04767-4. Additional file 1. Reference 1. Sprague, et al. Cluster identification, selection, and description in cluster Author details randomized crossover trials: the PREP-IT trials. Trials. 2020;21:712. https://doi. 1 Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, McMaster org/10.1186/s13063-020-04611-9. University, 293 Wellington Street North, Suite 110, Hamilton, ON L8L 8E7, Canada. 2Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, 293 Wellington St. N., Suite 110, Hamilton, ON L8L 8E7, Canada. 3Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 4Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, Denver, CO, USA. 5Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 6Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063- 020-04611-9. * Correspondence: sprags@mcmaster.ca 1 Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, McMaster University, 293 Wellington Street North, Suite 110, Hamilton, ON L8L 8E7, Canada 2 Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, 293 Wellington St. N., Suite 110, Hamilton, ON L8L 8E7, Canada Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.