Huang, Yu-Feng
Lin, Chao-Shun
Cherng, Yih-Giun
Yeh, Chun-Chieh
Chen, Ray-Jade
Chen, Ta-Liang
Liao, Chien-Chang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-0730
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST108-2221-E-038-006, MOST106-2314-B-038-036-MY3)
Article History
Received: 3 June 2019
Accepted: 6 January 2020
First Online: 16 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. To protect personal privacy, the electronic database was decoded with patient identifications scrambled for further academic access for research. According to Taiwan National Health Research Institutes regulations, informed consent is not required because patient identifications were decoded and scrambled. Ethical approval for this study (TMU-JIRB-201504008) was provided by the Institutional Review Board of Taipei Medical University.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.