Hospitalization outcome of heart diseases between patients who received medical care by cardiologists and non-cardiologist physicians: A propensity-score matched study

• Yu-Ming Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Ming Wu, Yih-Giun Cherng

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chih-Chung Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chun-Chieh Yeh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Li-Chin Sung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taipei Heart Institute, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6292-7117

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• Chao-Shun Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yih-Giun Cherng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Ming Wu, Yih-Giun Cherng

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ta-Liang Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chien-Chang Liao

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

  * E-mail: jacky48863027@yahoo.com.tw, ccliao@tmu.edu.tw

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Research Center of Big Data and Meta-Analysis, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-0730

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