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Incidence and risk factors of mental illness among the spouses of patients with sepsis: a population-based cohort study

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Data availability statement

The data analysed in this study are in accordance with the legal restriction of Personal Information Protection Act, which is imposed by the government of Taiwan. Therefore, raw data from NHID cannot be made publicly available. Requests for data can be sent as a formal application to the Health and Welfare Data Science Center, Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan. Requests to access these datasets should be directed to https://dep.mohw.gov.tw/DOS/cp-5119-59201-113.html.

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Funding

This study was supported in part by Grants from Veterans General Hospital (TCVGH-1107307D and TCVGH-1104402D). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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  1. Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Hua Chen

  2. Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Centre for Translational Medicine, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Hua Chen

  3. School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hsin-Hua Chen

  4. Big Data Center, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Hua Chen & Wen-Cheng Chao

  5. School of Medicine, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Hua Chen, Ching-Heng Lin, Chieh-Liang Wu & Wen-Cheng Chao

  6. Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Hua Chen, Ching-Heng Lin & Chieh-Liang Wu

  7. Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    Ching-Heng Lin

  8. Department of Healthcare Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ching-Heng Lin

  9. Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

    Ching-Heng Lin

  10. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 40705 Taiwan Avenue, Xitun District, No. 1650, Section 4, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Chieh-Liang Wu & Wen-Cheng Chao

  11. Department of Computer Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chieh-Liang Wu & Wen-Cheng Chao

  12. Department of Automatic Control Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chieh-Liang Wu & Wen-Cheng Chao

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Conceived and designed the experiments: HHC, CLW, and WCC. Acquired data: HHC, CHL, and WCC. Contributed materials/analysis tools: HHC, CHL, and WCC. Wrote the paper: HHC and WCC.

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Correspondence to Wen-Cheng Chao.

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Chen, HH., Lin, CH., Wu, CL. et al. Incidence and risk factors of mental illness among the spouses of patients with sepsis: a population-based cohort study. Intensive Care Med 48, 369–371 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-022-06624-1

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