Chin, Wei Leng
Chi, Po-Jui
Hung, Wei-Chieh
Lin, Chi-Wei
Chen, Chung-Yen
Chen, Jian-Han http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7360-2238
Article History
Received: 24 October 2020
Revised: 21 January 2021
Accepted: 26 January 2021
First Online: 19 February 2021
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were following the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study is based in part on data from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), provided by the National Health Insurance Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare and managed by the National Health Research Institutes (registered number NHIRD-103-246). The data utilized in this study cannot be made available in the manuscript, the supplemental files, or in a public repository due to the “Personal Information Protection Act” executed by Taiwan’s government, starting from 2012. Requests for data can be sent as a formal proposal to the NHIRD (ExternalRef removed) or by email to nhird@nhri.org.tw. The present study was thoroughly evaluated and approved by the Institutional Review Board of E-Da Hospital (approval EMRP-106-063).
: For this type of study, formal consent is not required.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.