Supplementary Table 1.

Normality test.

	Medical accessibility	Kolmogorov-Smirnov	Shapiro-Wilk
		p value	p value
Pre-matching data
Age	Difficult	0.037	<0.001
	Easy	<0.001	<0.001
BMI	Difficult	0.046	0.025
	Easy	0.200*	0.101
Distance from hospital, km.	Difficult	<0.001	<0.001
	Easy	<0.001	<0.001
Time in minute, personal transportation, min.	Difficult	<0.001	<0.001
	Easy	<0.001	<0.001
Time in minute, public transportation, min.	Difficult	0.004	<0.001
	Easy	<0.001	<0.001
Post-matching data
Age	Difficult	0.011	0.002
	Easy	<0.001	<0.001
BMI	Difficult	0.200*	0.413
	Easy	0.200*	0.284
Distance from hospital.km.	Difficult	0.001	<0.001
	Easy	<0.001	<0.001
Time in minute, personal transportation, min.	Difficult	0.002	<0.001
	Easy	<0.001	<0.001
Time in minute, public transportation, min.	Difficult	0.001	<0.001
	Easy	0.004	<0.001