About the Authors

Tai-Yi Hsu

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Hong-Mo Shih

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yu-Chiao Wang

Affiliations School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Leng-Chieh Lin

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Chiayi, Taiwan

Guan-Yi He

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Dermatology, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, Douliou, Taiwan

Chih-Yu Chen

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Hung Kao

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chao-Hsien Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wei-Kung Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Kung Chen, Tse-Yen Yang

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Tse-Yen Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Kung Chen, Tse-Yen Yang

yang_t_y@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. All authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TYH CHK TYY. Data curation: YCW TYY CHK. Funding acquisition: YCW CHK. Investigation: TYH HMS LCL GYH CYC CHK CHC WKC TYY. Methodology: YCW CHK. Project administration: CHK WKC TYY. Resources: TYH CHK WKC. Software: YCW CHK. Supervision: CHK CHC WKC TYY. Validation: YCW CHK WKC TYY. Visualization: CHK WKC TYY. Writing – original draft: TYH YCW CHK WKC TYY. Writing – review & editing: TYH YCW CHK CHC WKC TYY.