Sarcopenia is an effective predictor of difficult-to-wean and mortality among critically ill surgical patients

• Hao-Wei Kou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hao-Wei Kou, Chih-Hua Yeh

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Chih-Hua Yeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hao-Wei Kou, Chih-Hua Yeh

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliations Department of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Hsin-I Tsai,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Chih-Chieh Hsu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Yi-Chung Hsieh,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Wei-Ting Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Hao-Tsai Cheng,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Ming-Chin Yu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Surgery, Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital, Xiamen, China

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• Chao-Wei Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alanchaoweilee@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6853-4557

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