Piccinni, Carlo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8648-8961
Antonazzo, Ippazio Cosimo
Maggioni, Aldo P.
Pedrini, Antonella
Calabria, Silvia
Ronconi, Giulia
Dondi, Letizia
Martini, Nello
Roberto, Giuseppe
Sampietro, Tiziana
Sbrana, Francesco
Pino, Beatrice Dal
Bigazzi, Federico
Surdo, Giuseppa Lo
Volpi, Elisabetta
Biagini, Stefania
Gini, Rosa
Article History
First Online: 3 December 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: No funding was received to conduct this study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: This is an observational, non-interventional database study, re-utilising administrative data for the purpose of addressing a research question. The Agenzia regionale di Sanità della Toscana has general legal and ethical frameworks that allow conducting research by making secondary use of administrative data, upon approval of an internal governance board. Permission to contribute to this study was granted by the governance boards of the Agenzia regionale di Sanità della Toscana.