Ferrari, Amerigo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5309-2813
Seghieri, Chiara
Giannini, Andrea
Mannella, Paolo
Simoncini, Tommaso
Vainieri, Milena
Funding for this research was provided by:
Regione Toscana (No Award Number)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Article History
Received: 21 May 2022
Accepted: 22 December 2022
First Online: 11 January 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have no competing interests to declare.
: The Regional Health Information Office of Tuscany routinely checks Hospital Discharge Records data quality and ensures anonymization by assigning each patient with an encrypted unique identifier equal in all administrative databases. Thanks to this identifier, the patient’s identity and other sensitive information are unknown. Therefore, the study complies with the Italian law on privacy 101/2018 (aligned with the European GDPR 2016/679) and the “General authorisation to process personal data for scientific research purposes” enacted by the Italian Data Protection Authority in 2012. Therefore, neither ethical approval nor informed consent was necessary.