Di Paola, Rossana
Garzon, Simone http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5840-699X
Giuliani, Sara
Laganà, Antonio Simone
Noventa, Marco
Parissone, Francesca
Zorzi, Carlotta
Raffaelli, Ricciarda
Ghezzi, Fabio
Franchi, Massimo
Zaffagnini, Stefano
Article History
Received: 7 June 2018
Accepted: 12 September 2018
First Online: 21 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Di Paola R declares that she has no conflict of interest. Garzon S declares that he has no conflict of interest. Giuliani S declares that she has no conflict of interest. Parissone F declares that she has no conflict of interest. Zorzi C declares that she has no conflict of interest. Laganà AS declares that he has no conflict of interest. Noventa M declares that he has no conflict of interest. Raffaelli R declares that she has no conflict of interest. Ghezzi F declares that he has no conflict of interest. Franchi M declares that he has no conflict of interest. Zaffagnini S declares that he has no conflict of interest. The authors have no proprietary, financial, professional or other personal interest of any nature in any product, service or company.
: 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. The design, analysis, interpretation of data, drafting, and revisions conform to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines (ExternalRef removed), and the RECORD (reporting of studies conducted using observational routinely collected health data) statement [CitationRef removed], available through the EQUATOR (enhancing the quality and transparency of health research) network (ExternalRef removed). The study was non-advertised, and no remuneration was offered to encourage patients to give consent for collection and analysis of their data. The retrospective study design and development, with anonymized handling of the data, was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Verona.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Each patient enrolled in this study signed an informed consent for all the procedures and to allow data collection and analysis for research purpose.