Liu, Cheng-Chieh
Chang, Hsiao-Ting
Chiang, Shu-Chiung
Chen, Harn-Shen
Lin, Ming-Hwai
Chen, Tzeng-Ji
Hwang, Shinn-Jang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taipei Veterans General hospital (V96S3-001, -002, -005; V97S3-001, -002, -005; V98S3-001, -002, -005; V99S3-001, -002, -005)
Taipei Veterans General Hospital (106-E-005-2)
Article History
Received: 26 August 2017
Accepted: 23 April 2018
First Online: 27 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the institutional review board of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (97–12-06A and 2017-01-009BCF). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were 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. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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