About the Authors

Chin-Kuo Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Infection and Critical Care, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Puzi City, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tzu-Hsiung Huang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Puzi City, Taiwan

Cheng-Ta Yang

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Medicine, Taoyuan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chung-Sheng Shi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

csshi@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Puzi City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.