About the Authors

Yu-Chi Chiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chi Chiu, Shih-Wei Lee

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Institute of Hospital & Health Care Administration, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Wei Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chi Chiu, Shih-Wei Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chi-Wei Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Rebecca Chou-Jui Lin

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yung-Chia Huang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tzuo-Yun Lan

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

lshwu@hotmail.com (LSW); tylan@nycu.edu.tw (TYL)

Affiliation Institute of Hospital & Health Care Administration, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Lawrence Shih-Hsin Wu

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

lshwu@hotmail.com (LSW); tylan@nycu.edu.tw (TYL)

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.