About the Authors

Yu-Chun Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chun Chen, Shih-Chieh Chang

Affiliations Department of Medical Research and Education, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan, Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Chieh Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chun Chen, Shih-Chieh Chang

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Christy Pu

Affiliation Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Gau-Jun Tang

gaujuntang02@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medical Research and Education, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan, Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-CC S-CC CP G-JT. Performed the experiments: Y-CC S-CC G-JT. Analyzed the data: Y-CC S-CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-CC S-CC G-JT. Wrote the manuscript: Y-CC S-CC.