About the Authors

Kevin A. Wang

Affiliations Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shin-Kong Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Jia-Chi Wang

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Li Lin

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

Chun-Hung Tseng

Tseng.nm@gmail.com

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KAW CHT. Data curation: KAW JCW CLL CHT. Formal analysis: KAW JCW CLL CHT. Funding acquisition: CHT. Investigation: CLL CHT. Methodology: CLL CHT. Project administration: CHT. Resources: CLL CHT. Software: CLL CHT. Supervision: CHT. Validation: KAW JCW CLL CHT. Visualization: KAW JCW CLL CHT. Writing – original draft: KAW JCW CLL CHT. Writing – review & editing: KAW JCW CLL CHT.