Sung, Li-Chin
Chang, Chuen-Chau
Yeh, Chun-Chieh
Lee, Chia-Yen
Hu, Chaur-Jong
Cherng, Yih-Giun
Chen, Ta-Liang
Liao, Chien-Chang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST110-2314‐B‐038-108‐MY2, MOST108-2320-B-038-070-MY3)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST111-2320-B-532 -001-MY3)
Article History
Received: 3 November 2022
Accepted: 27 June 2023
First Online: 14 July 2023
Declarations
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: This research was conducted in accordance with international guidelines and the ethical standards outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. As these reimbursement claims were used in this study, the electronic database was decoded with patient identifications scrambled for further academic access for research to protect privacy. Although the Ministry of Health and Welfare exempt such uses from informed consent, because patient identifications are decoded and scrambled. This study was approved by the institutional review board of Taipei Medical University (TMU-JIRB-202203134; TMU-JIRB-202006057).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.