About the Authors

Yi-Kung Lee

Affiliations Emergency Department, Buddhist Tzu Chi Dalin General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Sheng-Wen Hou

Affiliation Emergency Department, Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Chih Lee

Affiliations School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Community Medicine Research Center and Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Chen-Yang Hsu

Affiliation Department of Public Heath, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yung-Sung Huang

Affiliation Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Yung-Cheng Su

drsu119@gmail.com

Affiliations Emergency Department, Buddhist Tzu Chi Dalin General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YKL YCS. Performed the experiments: YCS. Analyzed the data: YCS CYH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCL SWH. Wrote the paper: YSH YCS.