Contributors
Hsin-Hua Chen:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7304-4587
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Ching-Heng Lin: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: ResourcesRole: Software
Kuo-Lung Lai: Role: ConceptualizationRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Visualization
Tsu-Yi Hsieh: Role: ConceptualizationRole: ValidationRole: Visualization
Yi-Ming Chen: Role: ConceptualizationRole: ResourcesRole: Validation
Chih-Wei Tseng: Role: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Visualization
Donald F. Gotcher: Role: ResourcesRole: Validation
Yu-Mei Chang: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
Chuang-Chun Chiou: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
Shih-Chia Liu: Role: Formal analysisRole: Validation
Shao-Jen Weng: Role: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Nicholas M. Selby: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
20
April
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0231458
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
[2
]
Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine,
Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
[3
]
School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
[4
]
Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong-Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine,
Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
[5
]
School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
[6
]
Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming
University, Taipei, Taiwan
[7
]
Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University,
Taichung, Taiwan
[8
]
Department of Healthcare Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health
Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
[9
]
College of Business, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
[10
]
Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
[11
]
Department of International Business, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
[12
]
Department of Statistics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
University of Nottingham School of Medicine, UNITED KINGDOM
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-19-23326
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231458
PMC ID: 7170243
PubMed ID: 32310965
SO-VID: ccb7473c-5e7f-46ae-a78b-984802d49121
Copyright © © 2020 Chen et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 19
August
2019
Date
accepted
: 24
March
2020
Page count
Figures: 2,
Tables: 5,
Pages: 14
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010101, Taichung Veterans General Hospital;
Award ID: TCVGH-1067313C
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7304-4587
Hsin-Hua Chen
This study was supported in part by grant TCVGH-1067313C from Taichung Veterans General
Hospital, Taiwan. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis,
decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external
funding received for this study.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Clinical Medicine
Subject:
Clinical Immunology
Subject:
Autoimmune Diseases
Subject:
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Immunology
Subject:
Clinical Immunology
Subject:
Autoimmune Diseases
Subject:
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Immunology
Subject:
Clinical Immunology
Subject:
Autoimmune Diseases
Subject:
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nephrology
Subject:
Chronic Kidney Disease
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Pharmacology
Subject:
Drugs
Subject:
Analgesics
Subject:
NSAIDs
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Pain management
Subject:
Analgesics
Subject:
NSAIDs
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nephrology
Subject:
Medical Dialysis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Vascular Medicine
Subject:
Blood Pressure
Subject:
Hypertension
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Endocrinology
Subject:
Endocrine Disorders
Subject:
Diabetes Mellitus
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Metabolic Disorders
Subject:
Diabetes Mellitus
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
Subject:
Biomarkers
Subject:
Creatinine
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Renal System
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Renal System
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