Medical costs, Cesarean delivery rates, and length of stay in specialty hospitals vs. non-specialty hospitals in South Korea

• Seung Ju Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Eulji University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

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• Sun Jung Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Health Administration, Soonchunhyang University, Chungnam, Republic of Korea

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• Kyu-Tae Han,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Policy Research Affairs, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Ilsan, Republic of Korea

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• Eun-Cheol Park

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: ecpark@yuhs.ac

  Affiliations Institute of Health Services Research, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2306-5398

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