About the Authors

Po-Yin Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Po-Yin Chang, Po-Ching Lo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Po-Ching Lo

Contributed equally to this work with: Po-Yin Chang, Po-Ching Lo

Affiliation Institute of Health and Welfare Policy, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hui-Chin Chang

Affiliation Institute of Health and Welfare Policy, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuang-Chieh Hsueh

Affiliation Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yi-Wen Tsai

ywtsai@ym.edu.tw

Affiliation Institute of Health and Welfare Policy, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PYC PCL KCH YWT. Data curation: HCC. Formal analysis: PCL HCC YWT. Funding acquisition: KCH YWT. Methodology: PYC PCL YWT. Project administration: YWT. Resources: KCH YWT. Software: PCL HCC YWT. Supervision: KCH YWT. Validation: HCC YWT. Visualization: PCL HCC. Writing – original draft: PYC PCL. Writing – review & editing: YWT.