About the Authors

Yukihiro Maeda

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Care Services Management, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Rie Ichikawa

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ichikawa.rie@nihon-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Health Care Services Management, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Jimpei Misawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Jimpei Misawa, Akiko Shibuya, Teruyoshi Hishiki, Yoshiaki Kondo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Care Services Management, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Akiko Shibuya

Contributed equally to this work with: Jimpei Misawa, Akiko Shibuya, Teruyoshi Hishiki, Yoshiaki Kondo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Care Services Management, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Nursing, Toyama Prefectural University School of Nursing, Toyama, Japan

Teruyoshi Hishiki

Contributed equally to this work with: Jimpei Misawa, Akiko Shibuya, Teruyoshi Hishiki, Yoshiaki Kondo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Chiba, Japan

Takeshi Maeda

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Atsuo Yoshino

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiaki Kondo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jimpei Misawa, Akiko Shibuya, Teruyoshi Hishiki, Yoshiaki Kondo

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

Affiliation Department of Health Care Services Management, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.