Chu, Chun-Hao
Chien, Wu-Chien
Liu, Chiung-Chen
Chung, Chi-Hsiang
Chen, Ying-Chuan
Kuo, Feng-Chih
Fang, Hung-Hsiang
Cheng, Cheng-Yi
Ding, Yi-Xuan
Tien, Chiung-Hsi
Lin, Chien-Ming
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tri-Service General Hospital (TSGH-E-110187, TSGH-E-111196, TSGH-B-111018)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (110-2314-B-016-016-MY3, 107-2314-B-016-064-MY3)
Teh-Tzer Study Group for Human Medical Research Foundation of Taiwan (B1081003)
Article History
Received: 21 February 2023
Accepted: 19 September 2023
First Online: 29 September 2023
Declarations
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: The whole study was conducted 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 NHIRD encrypts patients’ personal information for privacy and provides researchers with anonymous identification numbers associated with relevant claim information, including patients’ sex, dates of birth, medical services utilized, and prescriptions. Since all identifying personal information was stripped from the secondary files before analysis, patient consent was not required for accessing the NHIRD. The Ethics Committee of the Institutional Review Board of Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center approved this study (TSGHIRB No. B-111–17).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.