Hu, Li-Yu
Yang, Albert C.
Lee, Shyh-Chyang
You, Zi-Hong
Tsai, Shih-Jen
Hu, Chang-Kuo
Shen, Cheng-Che http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1587-5590
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (108-2314-B-367 -001 -)
Taipei Veterans General Hospital (V108C-038)
Article History
Received: 27 March 2020
Accepted: 31 August 2020
First Online: 8 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital (2018–07-016 AC). No written consent from the study participants was required, because the NHI data set comprised de-identified secondary data for use in research. The Institutional Review Board of Taipei Veterans General Hospital issued a formal written waiver for the requirement of consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.