Franchi, Massimo
Parissone, Francesca
Lazzari, Cecilia
Garzon, Simone http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5840-699X
Laganà , Antonio Simone
Raffaelli, Ricciarda
Cromi, Antonella
Ghezzi, Fabio
Article History
Received: 21 May 2019
Accepted: 2 December 2019
First Online: 10 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have no proprietary, financial, professional or other personal interest of any nature in any product, service or company. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
: 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 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 approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the University of Verona. The study was non-advertised, and no remuneration was offered to encourage patients to give consent for the collection and analysis of their data.
: Informed consent for all the procedures and to allow data collection and analysis for research purpose was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.