Lue, Kun-Han
Chen, Yu-Hung http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9227-0731
Chu, Sung-Chao
Lin, Chih-Bin
Wang, Tso-Fu
Liu, Shu-Hsin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation (TCMF-A 107-01-02(112), TCMF-A 107-01-02(113))
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC 112-2314-B-303-021)
Article History
Received: 7 March 2024
Accepted: 22 April 2024
First Online: 5 May 2024
Declarations
:
: All authors declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest.
: This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee of Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation (protocol code IRB112-253-B and date of approval: Nov. 11, 2023). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The requirement of informed consent for this study was waived due to its retrospective nature.