Lastuka A, Mitchell AJ, Cogswell IE, et al. Estimating the costs of informal care for individuals with brain health disorders from 2000 to 2021: a modelling study. Lancet Public Health 2026; 11: e176–86—In this Article, numbers for hours of care reported in the Summary and Results sections were incorrect (these were weekly rather than annual, and the weekly number should have been 6 billion, as shown in the table): “…globally, informal caregivers for brain health disorders provided 314·5 billion (95% uncertainty interval 265·3–376·0) hours of care in 2021, at a cost of US$1·7 trillion (1·5–2·1) in forgone earnings.
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