Baggio, Silvia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9483-613X
Garzon, Simone
Russo, Anna
Ianniciello, Cesare Quintino
Santi, Lorenza
Laganà, Antonio Simone
Raffaelli, Ricciarda
Franchi, Massimo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli Studi di Verona
Article History
Received: 4 April 2020
Accepted: 13 August 2020
First Online: 27 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The authors have no proprietary, financial, professional or other personal interest of any nature in any product, service or company.
: The study was 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, 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 (Protocol number 5378, date 29/01/2019).
: 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.