About the Authors

Xing-li Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing-li Du, Lei Liu

Affiliation Nursing Management Department, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Lei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing-li Du, Lei Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Wen Song

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xiang Zhou

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital of Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Zheng-tao Lv

630105736@qq.com

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZL. Data curation: XD LL XZ WS ZL. Formal analysis: XD LL. Funding acquisition: ZL. Investigation: XD LL. Methodology: XD LL ZL. Project administration: ZL XZ. Resources: XD LL ZL. Software: XD LL ZL. Supervision: XZ WS ZL. Validation: XD LL XZ WS ZL. Visualization: XD LL. Writing – original draft: XD LL. Writing – review & editing: XZ WS ZL.