About the Authors

Chun-Yu Lin

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

Affiliations Department of General Medicine & Geriatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yen-Mu Wu

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Meng-Heng Hsieh

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chih-Wei Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Medicine Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Ching-Yang Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Medicine Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan

Ying-Jen Chen

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of General Medicine & Geriatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yueh-Fu Fang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dr.fang.yf@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Saint Paul's Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.