Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89842-9, published online 18 May 2021


The original version of this Article contained errors in the Affiliations.


Affiliation 5 was incorrectly given as ‘Department of Laboratory Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei City, Taiwan’. The correct affiliation is listed below:


Department of Laboratory Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan.


Shin-Yi Tsai was incorrectly affiliated with ‘Healthcare Service Research Center (HSRC), Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan’. The correct affiliations are listed below:


Affiliation 4 Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan.


Affiliation 5 Department of Laboratory Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan.


Affiliation 9 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences; Graduate Institute of Long‑Term Care, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan.


Affiliation 10 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.


The affiliation for the author Chien-Feng Kuo was incomplete. The correct affiliations are listed below:


Affiliation 6 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.


Affiliation 7 Department of Cosmetic Applications and Management, MacKay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, New Taipei City, Taiwan.


Finally, Che-Chen Lin was incorrectly affiliated with ‘Department of Cosmetic Applications and Management, MacKay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, New Taipei City, Taiwan’. The correct affiliation is listed below:


Affiliation 8 Healthcare Service Research Center (HSRC), Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.


The original Article has been corrected.