Concentration of hospital utilization in the capital area among elderly inpatients from non-capital regions in South Korea: Before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Yeaeun Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yeaeun Kim, Jihoon Lee

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Management, Catholic University of Pusan, Busan, South Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5075-2812

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• Jihoon Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yeaeun Kim, Jihoon Lee

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Management, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea

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• Jongho Park

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: jh8283p@daegu.ac.kr

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Management, Daegu University, Gyeongbuk, South Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2821-1825

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