About the Authors

Yi-Sheng Chao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Centre de recherche du centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Marco Scutari

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tai-Shen Chen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Chao-Jung Wu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département d'informatique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Madeleine Durand

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Antoine Boivin

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of family and emergency medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hsing-Chien Wu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Taipei Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, New Taipei city, Taiwan

Wei-Chih Chen

Roles Writing – review & editing

wiji.chen@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.