About the Authors

Yu-Ping Chang

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yu-Mu Chen

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chien-Hao Lai

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chiung-Yu Lin

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wen-Feng Fang

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Care, Chang Gung Institute of Technology, Chiayi, Taiwan

Cherng-Hua Huang

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shau-Hsuan Li

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hung-Chen Chen

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chin-Chou Wang

ccwang5202@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Care, Chang Gung Institute of Technology, Chiayi, Taiwan

Meng-Chih Lin

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Care, Chang Gung Institute of Technology, Chiayi, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YPC YMC CCW MCL. Data curation: YPC YMC. Formal analysis: WFF CHH. Funding acquisition: CCW. Investigation: YPC YMC CHL CCW MCL. Methodology: CYL HCC. Project administration: YPC YMC CCW. Resources: SHL HCC. Software: YMC HCC. Supervision: CHL CCW. Validation: YPC CCW. Visualization: YPC YMC. Writing – original draft: YPC YMC. Writing – review & editing: YPC CCW.