Funding for this research was provided by:
DoxaPharma srl
Article History
Accepted: 9 May 2017
First Online: 13 May 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Institutional research committee has been notified but approval was not required by Italian regulation since it was an anonymous cross-sectional survey.
: According to Italian regulation, a formal informed consent form signature was not required since the study was an anonymous cross-sectional study. However, patients read and signed a privacy and confidentiality information sheet and signed a release form to use the data obtained with the survey for research purposes in accordance to Italian regulations.