About the Authors

Takuma Kimura

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

kimura.takuma@tmd.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of R&D Innovation for Home Care Medicine, Department of General Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kyoko Nomura

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Science and Public Health, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Akita, Japan

Masayoshi Hashimoto

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of R&D Innovation for Home Care Medicine, Department of General Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Ken Shinmura

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Hyogo Medical University School of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Competing Interests

Takuma Kimura has received research funding and grants (CUC Inc., Japan). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, manuscript preparation or decision to publish this manuscript. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.