Could prokinetic agents protect long-term nasogastric tube-dependent patients from being hospitalized for pneumonia? A nationwide population-based case-crossover study

• Kun-Siang Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Bo-Lin Pan,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Wei-An Lai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Pin-Jie Bin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Yao-Hsu Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Health Information and Epidemiology Laboratory of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Chia-Pei Chou

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: libra760924@cgmh.org.tw

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1791-3370

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