About the Authors

Wen-Hsien Ho

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

King-Teh Lee

Affiliations Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hong-Yaw Chen

Affiliation Yuan's Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Te-Wei Ho

Affiliation Department of Health, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taipei, Taiwan

Herng-Chia Chiu

chiu@kmu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: W-HH H-CC. Performed the experiments: T-WH. Analyzed the data: W-HH H-CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: K-TL H-YC. Wrote the paper: W-HH H-CC.