Disease and economic burden for rare diseases in Taiwan: A longitudinal study using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database

• Jason C. Hsu ,

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

  * E-mail: jasonhsu@mail.ncku.edu.tw

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8710-2338

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• Huai-Chueh Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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• Wen-Chia Feng,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation National Health Insurance Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan

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• Chih-Ho Chou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliations School of Pharmacy and Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, Chi Mei Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Edward Chia-Cheng Lai,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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• Christine Y. Lu

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, MA, United States of America

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