About the Authors

Yu-Hsiang Hsieh

yhsieh1@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kuan-Fu Chen

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Charlotte A. Gaydos

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Richard E. Rothman

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gabor D. Kelen

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-HH. Analyzed the data: Y-HH K-FC. Wrote the paper: Y-HH. Interpretation of data: K-FC. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: K-FC, CAG, RER, GDK.