Chen, Chien-Chou
Chiang, Po-Huang
Chen, Yen-Hsu
Fan, I-Chun
Chan, Ta-Chien http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1685-783X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Academia Sinica (Multidisciplinary Health Cloud Research Program: Technology Development and Application of Big Health Data)
Taiwan CDC (MOHW106-CDC-114-000101)
Article History
Received: 23 July 2018
Accepted: 31 October 2019
First Online: 19 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital for research ethics (IRB#: KMUHIRB-SV (I)-20160057). In addition, we applied the data from Health and Welfare Data Science Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan and got the permission for analyzing the data. The data used in this study were derived from linkage of two databases including the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) and the TB registry. The data were all analyzed anonymously. Therefore, we did not need to get consent from each patient.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.