Declarations
Funding: This study was supported by grants from the China Medical
University, Taiwan (grants CMU108-MF-43 and CMU108-S-06), Ministry of
Health and Welfare (grant MOHW108-TDU-B-212-133004), and Ministry of
Science and Technology, Taiwan (grant MOST 109-2629-B-039-001-).
Conflicts of interest: None to report.
Availability of data and material: The data underlying this study are
the claims data of National Health Insurance program of Taiwan. The data
are not publicly available due to legal restrictions imposed by Taiwan’s
government. The claims data now are managed by the Health and Welfare
Data Science Center, Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and
Welfare. Interested researchers with questions regarding data
application can contact HWDC
(https://dep.mohw.gov.tw/dos/np-2497-113.html).
Authors’ contributions: Conceptualization: Yuhsien Li and Pei-Chun Chen;
Methodology: Yuhsien Li, Liang-Wen Hang and Pei-Chun Chen; Formal
analysis and investigation: Yuhsien Li, and Chih-Hsin Muo; Writing -
original draft preparation: Yuhsien Li; Writing - review and editing:
Liang-Wen Hang, Chih-Hsin Muo and Pei-Chun Chen; Funding acquisition:
Pei-Chun Chen; Supervision: Liang-Wen Hang and Pei-Chun Chen.