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Effects of increased distance to urgent and emergency care facilities resulting from health services reconfiguration: a systematic review · Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

We thank Dr Daniel Mason (Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group) for reading and commenting on some sections of the draft report. We also thank the members of the Sheffield Evidence Synthesis Centre Public Advisory Group for their contributions.

Contributions of authors

Duncan Chambers (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0154-0469) (Research Fellow in Public Health) was involved in the project co-ordination, study selection, data extraction, quality assessment and report writing.

Anna Cantrell (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0040-9853) (Research Associate in Health Economics and Decision Science) was involved in information retrieval, study selection, data extraction, quality assessment and report writing.

Susan K Baxter (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6034-5495) (Senior Research Fellow in Public Health) was involved in the protocol development, study selection and report writing, and she co-ordinated the patient and public involvement meeting.

Janette Turner (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3884-7875) (Reader in Emergency and Urgent Care Research) provided topic expert advice and was involved in the report writing.

Andrew Booth (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4808-3880) (Reader in Evidence-Based Information Practice) was involved in information retrieval, study selection and report writing.

All authors commented on drafts of the protocol and report.

Chambers D, Cantrell A, Baxter S, Turner J, Booth A. Effects of service changes affecting distance/time to access urgent and emergency care facilities on patient outcomes: a systematic review. BMC Medicine 2020;18:117.

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