DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Data are available from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD)
published by Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI) Bureau. The data utilized in this
study cannot be made available in the paper, the supplemental files, or in a public repository
due to the “Personal Information Protection Act” executed by Taiwan’s government,
starting from 2012. Requests for data can be sent as a formal proposal to the NHIRD
(http://nhird.nhri.org.tw) or by email to nhird@nhri.org.tw.