About the Authors

Szu-Ying Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Szu-Ying Lee, Yin-Cheng Chen

007378@ntuh.gov.tw

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, Yunlin County, Taiwan

Yin-Cheng Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Szu-Ying Lee, Yin-Cheng Chen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Health, Taipei Hospital, Taiwan

I-Chieh Tsai

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Health, Taipei Hospital, Taiwan

Chung-Jen Yen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Neng Chueh

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsueh-Fang Chuang

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei, Taiwan

Hon-Yen Wu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Chih-Kang Chiang

Affiliation Department of Integrated Diagnostics and Therapeutics, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Hui-Teng Cheng

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Kuan-Yu Hung

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Jenq-Wen Huang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWH. Performed the experiments: SYL YCC. Analyzed the data: ICT CJY CKC HTC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SNC HFC HYW JWH. Wrote the paper: KYH SYL YCC.