About the Authors

Herng-Ching Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Herng-Ching Lin, Chung-Chien Huang

Affiliations School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Research Center of Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sudha Xirasagar

Affiliation Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States of America

Shiu-Dong Chung

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Banciao, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Chien Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Herng-Ching Lin, Chung-Chien Huang

Affiliation School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chieh Tsai

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cathay General Hospital, Hsinchu Branch, Taiwan

Chao-Hung Chen

s448@eip.mkc.edu.tw

Affiliations Research Center of Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department & Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Cosmetic Applications and Management, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HCL CH. Data curation: HC. Formal analysis: HCL SD CC. Methodology: HCL SD CC MCT SX. Software: HCL. Supervision: CH. Validation: CH. Writing – original draft: HCL SD CC MCT CH. Writing – review & editing: HCL SD CC MCT CH SX.