“…Data are extracted directly from electronic information systems of hospital participating in the data-sharing networks (177 hospitals, consisting of 21 hospitals with <200 beds; 110 hospitals with 200-499 beds; and 46 hospitals with ≥500 beds). Medical Data Vision Co., Ltd is a well-established data source for epidemiological and pharmacoeconomic studies from that country [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]. Medical Data Vision Co., Ltd collects data only from consenting hospitals, and these data are de-identified at source with guaranteed anonymity.…”