Ma, Kai-Jie
Su, Shu-Yuan
Nie, Daniel
Chung, Wei-Sheng
Yao, Chi-Yu
Wang, Jong-Yi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST111-2410-H-039-001-MY2)
China Medical University, Taiwan (CMU111-MF-90)
Article History
Received: 14 September 2022
Accepted: 10 January 2023
First Online: 27 January 2023
Declarations
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: In this study, all the research database involving humans were conducted ethically and in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Our study protocols were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the China Medical University and Hospital (CMUH107-REC3-023). To protect the patients’ privacy, all personal identification numbers were encrypted by the National Health Insurance before the data were analyzed and released. Therefore, patient informed consent is not required for authorized researchers to access this research database. The researchers of this study are not possible to contact any studied patient for obtaining informed consent. No informed consent form is used in this study. Furthermore, the Institutional Review Board of China Medical University (CMUH107-REC3-023) also specifically waived the requirement of informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors made no disclosures.