Chen, Hui-Ling
Wu, Dai-Rong
Chen, Jhih-Jhen
Lin, Wei-Szu
Chen, I-Chieh
Liu, Jeng-Fen
Lien, Shine
Lin, Ching-Heng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TCVGH-1127303C, TCVGH-112G211, and TCVGH-YM1120103)
Article History
Received: 5 June 2023
Accepted: 19 October 2023
First Online: 6 December 2023
Declarations
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: This research project was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Taichung Veterans General Hospital (IRB no. CE19166A-2), and this study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethics approval for this study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, in accordance with applicable regulations and guidelines. The NHIRD provided all available data for this study. Since 2016, under the authorization and regulation of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, NHIRD data can be more widely linked with other public surveys at the Data Science Centre. These datasets include governmental surveys, disease registries, health surveys, social reporting system data, and welfare registry data. These databases and the NHIRD can be linked through an encrypted personal ID using deterministic record linkage. Informed consent requirement for this study is waived by Institutional Review Board of Taichung Veterans General Hospital considering retrospective nature of this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.