Marcellusi, Andrea http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3974-3798
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Viti, Raffaella
Kondili, Loreta A.
Rosato, Stefano
Vella, Stefano
Mennini, Francesco Saverio
Article History
First Online: 30 October 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: The PITER cohort study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of <i>Istituto Superiore di Sanità </i> (Italian National Institute of Public Health) and by the local ethics committees of each clinical centre. Patient data were evaluated via an anonymous analysis, adopting codes generated by the electronic case-report form. Informed consent was obtained from each patient participating in this study.
: AM, RV, LAK, SR, FSM and SV have no competing interests to declare regarding the content of this article.