About the Authors

Kuo-An Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo-An Chu, Chun-Hsiang Hsu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Shu-Zen Junior College of Medicine and Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Hsiang Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo-An Chu, Chun-Hsiang Hsu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mei-Chen Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Hsin Chu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Yao-Min Hung

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

ymhung1@gmail.com (YMH); jccwei@gmail.com (JCCW)

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Municipal United Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Yuhing Junior College of Health Care and Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

James Cheng-Chung Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

ymhung1@gmail.com (YMH); jccwei@gmail.com (JCCW)

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, BenQ Medical Center, The Affiliated BenQ Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.