About the Authors

Ping-Song Chou

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping-Song Chou, Wei-Chiao Chang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wei-Chiao Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping-Song Chou, Wei-Chiao Chang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Po Chou

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mu-En Liu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chiou-Lian Lai

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of and Master’s Program in Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ching-Kuan Liu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of and Master’s Program in Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yan-Chiou Ku

Affiliation Nursing Department, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shih-Jen Tsai

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yii-Her Chou

wpchang@mail.ypu.edu.tw (W. Chang); yihech@gap.kmu.edu.tw (YHC)

Affiliations Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Urology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wei-Pin Chang

wpchang@mail.ypu.edu.tw (W. Chang); yihech@gap.kmu.edu.tw (YHC)

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Management, Yuanpei University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PSC W. Chou YHC W. Chang. Performed the experiments: PSC MEL CLL CKL YCK. Analyzed the data: CKL YCK SJT WPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PSC W. Chou YHC MEL CLL CKL. Wrote the paper: PSC W. Chou WCC WPC.