Ronconi, Giulia
Calabria, Silvia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9345-2855
Piccinni, Carlo
Dondi, Letizia
Pedrini, Antonella
Esposito, Immacolata
Addesi, Alice
Sambati, Luisa
Martini, Nello
Funding for this research was provided by:
zambon italy
Article History
Accepted: 10 May 2022
First Online: 13 June 2022
Declarations
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: This research was partially supported by an unconditional grant from Zambon Italy. Zambon Italy was not involved in data collection, data analysis and interpretation, writing the report, or in deciding to submit the article for publication.
: Giulia Ronconi, Silvia Calabria, Carlo Piccinni, Letizia Dondi, Antonella Pedrini, Immacolata Esposito, Alice Addesi, Luisa Sambati, and Nello Martini declare no conflicts of interests/competing interests.
: The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available because they come from anonymized administrative databases in property of the Italian Regional and Local Health Facilities, therefore they were analyzed by Fondazione ReS under specific agreement.
: Oracle SQL Developer Italian version 18.1.0.095 (Los Angeles, CA, USA) software was used to conduct all the analyses.
: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation and data collection and analysis were performed by Giulia Ronconi, Letizia Dondi, Silvia Calabria, Carlo Piccinni, Antonella Pedrini and Luisa Sambati. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Silvia Calabria, Luisa Sambati and Carlo Piccinni, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
: Ethical approval was not sought for the present study because it was based on the reuse of anonymous administrative data and conducted for institutional purposes, in agreement with the Italian health facilities (regions and local health units).
: Consent to participate was not sought for the present study.
: Not applicable.