About the Authors

Akira Kuriyama

akira.kuriyama.jpn@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Noriyuki Umakoshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Noriyuki Umakoshi, Jun Fujinaga

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Jun Fujinaga

Contributed equally to this work with: Noriyuki Umakoshi, Jun Fujinaga

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Toshie Kaihara

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Seigo Urushidani

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Naoki Kuninaga

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Motohiro Ichikawa

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Shinichiro Ienaga

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Akira Sasaki

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Tetsunori Ikegami

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AK NU JF. Data curation: JF. Formal analysis: AK. Investigation: AK NU JF TK SU NK MI SI AS TI. Methodology: AK NU JF. Project administration: AK NU JF TI. Resources: NU TK SU NK MI SI AS TI. Supervision: AK IT. Visualization: AK. Writing – original draft: AK. Writing – review & editing: AK NU JF TK SU NK MI SI AS TI.