Emergency care utilization and patients' outcome before and after COVID-19 national lockdown in Iran: a cross-sectional study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe institutional review board of KUMS approved (IR.KUMS.REC.1400.054) this research. It must be mentioned that as the managerial data were used in current research, the informed consent was not required. So, informed consent to participate was waived by IRB of KUMS. All methods were carried out in accordance to relevant guidelines and regulations. The institutional review board of KUMS also supervised and approved all the methods and steps of the present investigation. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by the research deputy of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (IR.KUMS.REC.1400.054)."