Piccinni, Carlo
Dondi, Letizia
Ronconi, Giulia
Calabria, Silvia
Pedrini, Antonella
Esposito, Immacolata
Martini, Nello
Marangolo, Maurizio
Article History
First Online: 25 July 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: No funding was received for the study.
: CP, LD, GR, SC, AP, IE, NM and MM declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This is an observational, non-interventional database study, re-utilising administrative data, primary collected for governance purposes. The study was conducted under specific agreements between Fondazione ReS and Italian Regional/Local Health Facilities, participating with anonymous data to the ReS database. All these institutions have general legal and ethical frameworks that allow them for conducting analyses, aimed to address governance and research questions, by making secondary use of anonymous administrative data.
: No informed consent is required to use anonymous patient data which is analysed retrospectively.