About the Authors

Chih-Chin Kao

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Chin Kao, Ju-Yeh Yang

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ju-Yeh Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Chin Kao, Ju-Yeh Yang

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Quality Management Center, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Industrial Management, Oriental Institute of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Likwang Chen

Affiliation Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Chia-Ter Chao

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Sen Peng

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Chih-Kang Chiang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jenq-Wen Huang

jenqwen@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuan-Yu Hung

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CCK JYY. Data curation: JYY LKC. Formal analysis: JYY LKC. Funding acquisition: JYY LKC. Investigation: CTC YSP CKC. Methodology: LKC CTC YSP CKC JWH. Project administration: CCK JYY JWH. Resources: CCK JYY JWH. Software: JYY. Supervision: JWH KYH. Validation: CTC YSP CKC JWH KYH. Visualization: CCK JYY JWH KYH. Writing – original draft: CCK JYY. Writing – review & editing: JWH KYH.