Chen, Szu-Ying
Lin, Chieh-Chung
Tsan, Yu-Tse
Chan, Wei-Cheng
Wang, Jiaan-Der http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-4969
Chou, Yi-Jung
Lin, Ching-Heng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan (TCVGH 1056508D)
Article History
Received: 28 July 2016
Accepted: 20 February 2018
First Online: 2 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures outlined in this study protocol were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and approved by Institutional Review Board, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan (No. CE15331B). Consent to participate was waived because this study was a retrospective database analysis.
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