About the Authors

I-Ching Chou

Affiliations Children’s Medical Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yu-Tzu Chang

Affiliation Children’s Medical Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Zheng-Nan Chin

Affiliation Children’s Medical Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Hsin Muo

Affiliation Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Fung-Chang Sung

Affiliations Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Huang-Tsung Kuo

Affiliation Children’s Medical Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chang-Hai Tsai

Affiliations Children’s Medical Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Healthcare Administration, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Hung Kao

d10040@mail.cmuh.org.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

No. Conceived and designed the experiments: ICC YTC CHK. Performed the experiments: ICC YTC ZNC CHM FCS HTK CHT CHK. Analyzed the data: CHM FCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHM FCS. Wrote the paper: ICC YTC ZNC CHM FCS HTK CHT CHK.