Hsu, Ping-Chih
Lee, Suey-Haur
Chiu, Li-Chung
Lee, Chung-Shu
Wu, Chiao-En
Kuo, Scott Chih-Hsi
Ju, Jia-Shiuan
Huang, Allen Chung-Cheng
Li, Shih-Hong
Ko, Ho-Wen
Yang, Cheng-Ta
Wang, Chin-Chou http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2932-751X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (111-2628-B-182A-003, 110-2628-B-182A-019)
Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CMRPG8K1271-3, CMRPG8L0521, NMRPG8M0241, CMRPG8M0331)
Article History
Accepted: 4 January 2023
First Online: 20 February 2023
Declarations
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: This study was supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) (Grant nos. 111-2628-B-182A-003 and 110-2628-B-182A-019 to P.C.H.) and the Chang Gung Medical Research Project (Grant nos. CMRPG8K1271-3, CMRPG8L0521, NMRPG8M0241, and CMRPG8M0331 to C.C.W.)
: All authors in this work declare no conflicts of interest.
: This retrospective research was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) (no. 202201170B0) of Chang Gung Medical Foundation. The IRB of the Chang-Gung Medical Foundation granted a waiver of informed consent given the retrospective nature of this study. All study procedures were implemented in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. No identifiable information of the study subjects, such as personal IDs and birthdays, was presented in this paper.
: The datasets generated and analyzed during this study are not publicly available because of local regulations regarding medical confidentiality.
: All authors of this paper meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship and have approved the final manuscript.Conception and design of the study: PCH and CCW; writing of the manuscript: SHL and PCH; acquisition of the study data (information of the study patients): PCH, SHL, LCC, CSL, CEW, SCHK, JSJ, ACCH, SHL, HWK, CTY, and CCW; analysis and interpretation of the data: PCH, SHL, LCC, CSL, CEW, ACCH, SCHK; validation of the data: PCH, LCC, and CCW; supervision of study work (review and revision of the study): PCH, CTY, and CCW; administrative and funding support: PCH and CCW.
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