Hou-Chuan Lai: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original
draft
Meei-Shyuan Lee: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: Writing
– original draft
Kuen-Tze Lin: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
Yi-Hsuan Huang: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
Jen-Yin Chen: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
Yao-Tsung Lin: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
Kuo-Chuan Hung: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
Zhi-Fu Wu:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6376-9085
Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review &
editing
Ehab Farag: Role: Editor
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):
17
March
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: e0230290
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical
Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
[2
]
School of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic
of China
[3
]
Department of of Radiation Oncology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense
Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
[4
]
Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City, Taiwan, Republic
of China
[5
]
Department of the Senior Citizen Service Management, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy
and Science, Tainan City, Taiwan, Republic of China
Cleveland Clinic, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230290
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PubMed ID: 32182262
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