Panza, Raffaella https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2489-9500
Prontera, Giorgia
Ives, Kevin Nicholas
Zivanovic, Sanja
Roehr, Charles C.
Quercia, Michele
Schettini, Federico
Bianchi, Francesco Paolo
Tafuri, Silvio
Di Mauro, Antonio
Laforgia, Nicola
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mellin SpA (01, 02)
Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (Global Thesis)
Article History
Received: 5 July 2019
Revised: 17 September 2019
Accepted: 20 September 2019
First Online: 26 October 2019
Compliance with ethical statements
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: Ethical approval was not necessary as this was an evaluation of current practice. This article does not contain any trials with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments.
: Informed consent was obtained from all parents of individual participants included in the study. NICU informed consent, signed by parents at hospital admission, allows to use any personal data in anonymous form for scientific reason or publication.
: The authors declare that they have neither conflict of interest nor financial relationship with the manufacturer of the devices. Dr. Giorgia Prontera was awarded a grant from University of Bari (Global Thesis Project) for the conduct of the study. Dr. Antonio Di Mauro and Dr. Raffaella Panza received a fellowship funded by Mellin S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) to attend the Doctorate (PhD) course in Biomolecular Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences of University of Bari “Aldo Moro”.