Yen, Chieh-Li
Lin, Yu-Sheng
Lu, Yueh-An
Lee, Hsin-Fu
Lee, Cheng-Chia
Tung, Ying-Chang
Kuo, George
Wu, Lung-Sheng
Tian, Ya-Chung
Chu, Pao-Hsien http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0361-6348
Funding for this research was provided by:
Chang Gung Medical Foundation (CORPG5H0091)
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CORPG5H0091)
Article History
Received: 13 February 2019
Accepted: 26 July 2019
First Online: 22 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective observational study was performed with the permission of the Chang Gung Medical Foundation Institutional Review Board (approval number: 201801731B1). This study was qualified for a waiver of consent. Because any data that could identify a specific patient or health care provider in the NHIRD and RCIPD are scrambled before being released to protect personal privacy. Therefore, this study qualified for a waiver of consent, which was approved by Chang Gung Medical Foundation’s Institutional Review Board.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.