About the Authors

Ting-Shuo Huang

Affiliation Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung, Taiwan

Yu-Chiau Shyu

Affiliations Institute of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Huang-Yang Chen

Affiliation Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung, Taiwan

Li-Mei Lin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung, Taiwan

Chia-Ying Lo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung, Taiwan

Shin-Sheng Yuan

syuan@stat.sinica.edu.tw (SSY); peijerchen@ntu.edu.tw (PJC)

Affiliation Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Pei-Jer Chen

syuan@stat.sinica.edu.tw (SSY); peijerchen@ntu.edu.tw (PJC)

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critically revised the final report: PJC. Conceived and designed the experiments: TSH SSY PJC. Performed the experiments: TSH HYC LML CYL. Analyzed the data: TSH YCS SSY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TSH YCS SSY. Wrote the paper: TSH YCS HYC SSY.