Wang, Yi-Chi
Chen, Yung-Liang
Huang, Chun-Che
Ho, Chung-Han
Huang, Yu-Tung
Wu, Ming-Ping
Ou, Ming-Jung
Yang, Chiu-Hsien
Chen, Ping-Jen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7636-0801
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital (KMUH106-6R74)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2019
Accepted: 22 December 2019
First Online: 30 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics permission was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Chi Mei Medical Center (IRB No. 10708-E01), and the requirement for informed consent was waived. The data for this study was obtained from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD,). The application of permission to access the data was sent to National Health Research Institute (NHRI), Taiwan and approved. The NHIRD has been transferred to the Health and Welfare Data Science Center (HWDC), Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan ().
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.