About the Authors

Ming-Jang Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Madou Sin-Lau Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Chao-Ju Chen

Affiliation Department of Respiratory therepy, Madou Sin-Lau Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

King-Teh Lee

Affiliations Division of Hepato-biliary-pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hon-Yi Shi

hshi@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: MJL HYS. Performed the experiments: CJC KTL. Analyzed the data: MJL HYS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJL HYS. Wrote the paper: MJL CJC KTL HYS.