Ma, Kai-Jie
Lin, Yi-Ju
Liu, Chiu-Shong
Tseng, Pei-Ying
Wang, Shi-Heng
Yao, Chi-Yu
Wang, Jong-Yi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST110-2410-H-039-001)
China Medical University, Taiwan (CMU107-Z-04)
Tainan Municipal An-Nan Hospital (ANHRF111-09)
Article History
Received: 2 June 2023
Accepted: 14 September 2023
First Online: 27 November 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: In this study, all the research database involving humans were conducted ethically and in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. This research was approved by the Central Regional Research Ethics Committee of China Medical University, Taiwan (CRREC-108-006). To protect the patients’ privacy, all personal identification numbers were encrypted by the National Health Insurance before the data were analyzed and released. Therefore, patient informed consent is not required for authorized researchers to access this research database. The researchers of this study are not possible to contact any studied patient for obtaining informed consent. No informed consent form is used in this study. Furthermore, the Institutional Review Board of China Medical University (CRREC-108-006) also specifically waived the requirement of informed consent.
: Not applicable.