Li, Hsing-Jung
Chen, Chi-Yuan
Tsai, Ching-Hong
Kuo, Chao-Chan
Chen, Kung-Heng
Chen, Kuan-Hsu
Li, Ying-Chun
Article History
Received: 2 September 2018
Accepted: 28 May 2019
First Online: 4 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All executed procedures in the study complied with the ethical standards of the Institutional Review Board of Antai Tian-Sheng Memorial Hospital and National Health Insurance Research Database research committees and with the 2004 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. The NHIRD contains anonymized public data released for research. No informed consent is required.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the content of this article. The data were provided by the National Health Insurance Administration and are managed by the National Health Research Institutes. The interpretation and conclusions herein do not represent the opinions of these agencies.