About the Authors

Yih-Jyh Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Liver Cancer Collaborative Oncology Group, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Chia-Ni Lin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Tannaz Sedghi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center, Yale Cancer Center and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sylvia H. Hsu

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cary P. Gross

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center, Yale Cancer Center and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jung-Der Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jdwang121@gmail.com (JDW); shiyi.wang@yale.edu (SYW)

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Shi-Yi Wang

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

jdwang121@gmail.com (JDW); shiyi.wang@yale.edu (SYW)

Affiliations Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center, Yale Cancer Center and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.