About the Authors

Bai-Ru Cheng

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The First School of Clinical Medicine (Dongzhimen Hospital), Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jia-Qi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Qi Chen, Xiao-Wen Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Clinical College (China-Japan Friendship Hospital), Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Xiao-Wen Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Qi Chen, Xiao-Wen Zhang

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Qin-Yang Gao

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation The First School of Clinical Medicine (Dongzhimen Hospital), Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Wei-Hong Li

Roles Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Nursing, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Li-Jiao Yan

Roles Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Yu-Qiao Zhang

Roles Software

Affiliation Clinical College (China-Japan Friendship Hospital), Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Chang-Jiang Wu

Roles Software

Affiliation The Second School of Clinical Medicine (Dongfang Hospital), Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jing-Li Xing

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jian-Ping Liu

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

liujp@bucm.edu.cn

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.