Travel time to emergency care not by geographic time, but by optimal time: A nationwide cross-sectional study for establishing optimal hospital access time to emergency medical care in South Korea

• Won Mo Jang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

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• Juyeon Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Public Health, National Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

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• Sang Jun Eun,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea

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• Jun Yim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Public Health, National Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Citizen Health, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

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• Yoon Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Health Policy and Management, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

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• Mi Young Kwak

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

  * E-mail: kmy805@gmail.com

  Affiliation Center for Public Health, National Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0133-3267

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