Utopia for Norwegian helicopter emergency medical services: Estimating the number of bases needed to radically bring down response times, and lives needed to be saved for cost effectiveness

• Caroline Jeanne Jagtenberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Operations Analytics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0742-7707

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• Oddvar Uleberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine and Pre-hospital Services, St. Olav`s University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway, Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Department of Research and Development, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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• Gudrun Maria Waaler Bjørnelv,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Jo Røislien

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jo.roislien@norskluftambulanse.no

  Affiliations Department of Research, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7168-2833

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