About the Authors

Kun-ming Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Kun-ming Tao, Xiao-qian Li

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgical Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xiao-qian Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Kun-ming Tao, Xiao-qian Li

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Qing-hui Zhou

weifeng_yu@yeah.net (W-fY); zhouqinghui@sohu.com (Q-hZ)

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

David Moher

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Chang-quan Ling

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Wei-feng Yu

weifeng_yu@yeah.net (W-fY); zhouqinghui@sohu.com (Q-hZ)

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgical Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: K-mT X-qL Q-hZ C-qL W-fY. Performed the experiments: K-mT X-qL Q-hZ W-fY. Analyzed the data: K-mT X-qL Q-hZ WFY DM. Wrote the paper: K-mT X-qL Q-hZ W-fY DM.