Lee, Hsiang-Ying
Tang, Jia-Hong
Chen, Yen-Hsu
Wu, Wen-Jeng
Juan, Yung-Shun
Li, Wei-Ming
Chan, Ta-Chien http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1685-783X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Academia Sinica
Article History
Received: 15 July 2020
Accepted: 4 November 2020
First Online: 24 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare no competing interest.
: To comply with personal electronic data privacy regulations, only trained staff members from the Health and Welfare Data Science Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan and from MJ Health Research Foundation conducted the procedures of data linkage and scrambled personal identification. The researchers were only able to analyze data anonymously. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) on Biomedical Science Research, Academia Sinica (AS-IRB-BM-17044).
: The databases we used were all stripped of identifying information and thus informed consent was not needed.