About the Authors

Chao-Shun Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Chung Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Chieh Yeh

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States of America

Yi-Cheng Chang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Li Chung

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-Long Lane

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chun-Chuan Shih

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ta-Liang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ta-Liang Chen, Chien-Chang Liao

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Chang Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ta-Liang Chen, Chien-Chang Liao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jacky48863027@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Shuan Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.