d’Errico, Angelo
Strippoli, Elena
Vasta, Rosario
Ferrante, Gianluigi
Spila Alegiani, Stefania
Ricceri, Fulvio
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli Studi di Torino
Article History
Received: 16 April 2021
Accepted: 1 August 2021
First Online: 15 October 2021
Change Date: 3 November 2021
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-021-05708-y
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study used only administrative data on socio-demographics, drugs prescriptions, mortality and hospital admissions of Piedmont residents, which have been record-linked at the individual level by the Piedmont Office of Statistics. The record-linked dataset goes under the name of Longitudinal Study of Piedmont, which is a specific project of the Italian National Statistical Program (NSP) that is proposed by the National Statistical System (Sistan), a network of public and private entities that provides the country and international bodies with official statistical information, and is yearly approved by law by the Italian Parliament. In particular, since 2003 a specific form (PIE-00001 “Monitoring of socio-economic differences in mortality and morbidity through longitudinal studies”) is included in the NSP currently in effect for the three-year period 2017–2019 and recently renewed for the period 2020–2022. Confidentiality is guaranteed through the deletion of personally identifiable information from individual records and the assignment of internal IDs.