Affiliation: | 1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;2. School of Medicine, Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan;3. Yuhing Junior College of Health Care and Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;4. Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan;5. Department of Statistics, Oklahoma state University, Oklahoma, USA;6. Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, and Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan;7. Division of Nephrology, Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center, Baldwin Park, CA, USA;8. School of Health Policy and Management, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan;9. Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan |