Rethinking non-urgent EMS conveyance to ED during night-time - a pilot study in Southwest Finland.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study followed the good scientific practice defined by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK. The study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and all the appropriate national guidelines. Conventions of data protection and information security were applied. In this study, only secondary data from administrative registers were used, and therefore ethical approval and informed consent were waived in accordance with the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK guidelines [41]. The research permit (T170/2021) was applied for from the Turku Clinical Research Centre and granted. No personal ID or patient records were handled outside the hospital premises. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors."