Yen, Chih-Chieh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3109-2783
Yeh, Yu-Min
Huang, Hsuan-Yi
Ting, Yu-Lin
Fu, Pei-An
Lin, Tzu-Chien
Liu, I-Ting
Yen, Chia-Jui http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8744-6248
Article History
Accepted: 1 May 2023
First Online: 22 June 2023
Declarations
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: No external funding was used in the preparation of this manuscript.
: The authors, including CC Yen, YM Yeh, HY Huang, YL Ting, PA Fu, TC Lin, IT Liu, and CJ Yen, declare that they have no conflicts of interest that might be relevant to the contents of this manuscript.
: The study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan and registered by a serial number A-ER-111-269 in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and its amendments.
: This is a retrospective observational study including patients with standard medical care. All analysed information had undergone a valid de-identification process and was stored as electronic medical records in National Cheng Kung University Hospital. Therefore, the informed consent is waived as approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
: Not applicable.
: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the registry of electronic medical records in National Cheng Kung University Hospital, but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which are used under specific permission for the current study, and so are not publicly available elsewhere. However, the datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author, CJ Yen, on reasonable request with permission of Clinical Research Center, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan. yencj@mail.ncku.edu.tw. No. 138, Sheng-Li Road, Tainan 70403, Taiwan. Tel: +886-6-235-3535 ext. 6550.
: Not applicable.
: CCY is the first author of the study and was responsible for writing the manuscript and data management. YMY is the second author and provided critical patient information that enabled the analytic process. HYH and YLT are the third group of authors that were responsible for independent review on study materials. PAF, TCL and ITL are another group of authors who participated in manuscript preparation, writing and revision. CJY is the corresponding author who initiated the study and investigations.