Valent, Francesca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4071-0897
Malacarne, Francesca
Licata, Sabrina
Pipan, Corrado
Article History
Received: 6 April 2020
Accepted: 5 June 2020
First Online: 16 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Declaration of Helsinki. The analyses were based on anonymous administrative data; therefore, patient informed consent and ethics committee approval were not required in Italy. Patients were not identifiable, and their privacy rights were always observed.
: Not applicable (the study used anonymous administrative data; patients could not be identified and no consent could be collected).
: Not applicable (the study used anonymous administrative data; patients could not be identified and no consent could be collected).