About the Authors

Muhammad Kamel Frozanfar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Healthcare Administration, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program, Office of Epidemiology, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Nobuyuki Hamajima

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Administration, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Said Hafizullah Fayaz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Healthcare Administration, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Abdullah Darman Rahimzad

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Balkh University Faculty of Medicine, Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan

Hedayatullah Stanekzai

Roles Data curation

Affiliation National Emergency Operation Center, Ministry of Public Health, Kabul, Afghanistan

Souphalak Inthaphatha

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Administration, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Kimihiro Nishino

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Administration, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Eiko Yamamoto

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yamaeiko@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Administration, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.