Ciaffi, Jacopo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9446-7351
Morabito, Maria Francesca
Ruscitti, Piero https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3487-8551
D’Angelo, Salvatore
Mancarella, Luana
Brusi, Veronica
Abignano, Giuseppina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1479-0133
Pucino, Valentina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7683-4568
Giacomelli, Roberto https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0670-9638
Meliconi, Riccardo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5216-5219
Ursini, Francesco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8194-8642
Funding for this research was provided by:
lega italiana sclerosi sistemica
Article History
Received: 2 August 2020
Accepted: 1 October 2020
First Online: 14 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the 2013 amendment of the Declaration of Helsinki. Authors had access only to anonymized aggregate data routinely collected in administrative health systems and provided by regional governmental authorities expressly for research purpose. Due to the study design, informed consent was therefore not required and, in agreement with the existent Italian disposition-by-law (G.U. no. 76, 31/03/2008), ethics committee approval was not necessary.
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