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      <journal-title>JMIR Formative Research</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2561-326X</issn>
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        <article-title>Correction: The Mechanism of Online Health Information Seeking Switching to Online Medical Consultation: Cross-Sectional Study</article-title>
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            <surname>Xia</surname>
            <given-names>Jingjing</given-names>
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            <surname>Chen</surname>
            <given-names>Hui</given-names>
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            <surname>Bai</surname>
            <given-names>Yang</given-names>
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            <surname>Wang</surname>
            <given-names>Jun</given-names>
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            <institution>Center for Health Policy Research and Evaluation</institution>
            <institution>Renmin University of China</institution>
            <addr-line>59 Zhongguancun Street Hai Dian District</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Beijing, 100872</addr-line>
            <country>China</country>
            <phone>86 8611290668</phone>
            <email>hpreruc2022@126.com</email>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Wang</surname>
            <given-names>Liuan</given-names>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ren</surname>
            <given-names>Wenjie</given-names>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution>School of Health Management</institution>
        <institution>Henan Medical University</institution>
        <addr-line>Xinxiang, Henan</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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        <label>2</label>
        <institution>Institutes of Health Central Plains</institution>
        <institution>Henan Medical University</institution>
        <addr-line>Xinxiang, Henan</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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        <label>3</label>
        <institution>School of Public Administration and Policy</institution>
        <institution>Renmin University of China</institution>
        <addr-line>Beijing</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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        <institution>Center for Health Policy Research and Evaluation</institution>
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        <institution>Healthy China Institute</institution>
        <institution>Renmin University of China</institution>
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        <country>China</country>
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        <label>6</label>
        <institution>School of Management</institution>
        <institution>Beijing Institute of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line>Beijing</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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        <institution>Social Science Domain</institution>
        <institution>Beijing Institute of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line>Zhuhai</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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        <label>8</label>
        <institution>Qionghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine</institution>
        <addr-line>Qionghai</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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        <corresp>Corresponding Author: Jun Wang <email>hpreruc2022@126.com</email></corresp>
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        <year>2026</year>
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        <day>16</day>
        <month>3</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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      <volume>10</volume>
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      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>5</day>
          <month>3</month>
          <year>2026</year>
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        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>5</day>
          <month>3</month>
          <year>2026</year>
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      <copyright-statement>©Lijiang Zhang, Jingjing Xia, Hui Chen, Yang Bai, Jun Wang, Liuan Wang, Wenjie Ren. Originally published in JMIR Formative Research (https://formative.jmir.org), 16.03.2026.</copyright-statement>
      <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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        <p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Formative Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://formative.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.</p>
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    <p>In “The Mechanism of Online Health Information Seeking Switching to Online Medical Consultation: Cross-Sectional Study” [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>], the authors noted one error.</p>
    <p>The equal contribution designation has been added to the following authors:</p>
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      <p>Yang Bai, Wenjie Ren</p>
    </disp-quote>
    <p>The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories.</p>
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