Correction to: Global Health Research and Policy (2023) 8:11 https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-023-00293-3


Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that the fifth sentence in the last paragraph of the Background section needed to be updated.


The original sentence was:

“Additionally, most prior articles assessing cost-of-diabetes (COD) used secondary data acquired from ‘hospital databases’ or ‘national health surveys’, which possess evident restraints regarding reliability [10–12].”


The updated sentence is:

“Additionally, most prior articles assessing cost-of-diabetes (COD) used secondary data acquired from ‘hospital databases’ or ‘national health surveys’, which possess evident restraints regarding reliability [10–11].”


The original article [1] has been corrected.