Scardino, Marco
Martorelli, Federica
D’Amato, Tiziana
Fenocchio, Giorgia
Simili, Vincenzo
Grappiolo, Guido
Di Matteo, Berardo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9807-0271
Kon, Elizaveta
Lagioia, Michele
Article History
Received: 27 September 2018
Accepted: 2 January 2019
First Online: 23 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: The study protocol was notified to Humanitas Research Hospital (ICH) Ethical Committee. During the study, the data were collected in complete anonymity and handled according to the local law on privacy. The ICH blood management protocol is compliant with the Declaration of Helsinki, to standards EN ISO 14155:1, EN ISO 14155:2 and Good Clinical Practices (GCP). Moreover, all personnel involved in the study agreed to act in accordance with the principles contained in these GCPs.
: All the authors of the present manuscript have nothing to disclose.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.