About the Authors

Chun-Kang Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Ching-Pei Tsai

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women's Health, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Tsai-Ling Liao

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wen-Nan Huang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Hsing Chen

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Heng Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Heng Lin, Yi-Ming Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, Fu-Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Health Care Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Ming Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Heng Lin, Yi-Ming Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

ymchen1@vghtc.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.