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Editorial
. 2024 Dec;11(4):331-334.
doi: 10.15441/ceem.24.337. Epub 2024 Dec 30.

Emergency department crowding: a national data report

Hansol Chang  1 , Eunsil Ko  2 , Jin-Hee Lee  2 , Minha Kim  1 , Taerim Kim  1   3 , Tae Gun Shin  1 , Seongjung Kim  2   4
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Emergency department crowding: a national data report

Hansol Chang et al. Clin Exp Emerg Med. 2024 Dec.
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Conflicts of interest

Taerim Kim and Tae Gun Shin are Editorial Board members of Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, but were not involved in the peer reviewer selection, evaluation, or decision process of this article. The authors have no other conflicts of interest to declare.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Distribution of emergency department (ED) occupancy rates in Korea from 2018 to 2022.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Box plots of the emergency department (ED) occupancy rate according to the level of emergency center in Korea from 2018 to 2022.
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