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Article History

Received: 8 July 2019

Accepted: 13 October 2019

First Online: 5 November 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study conformed to the revised ethical principles of the Helsinki declaration and the Codex rules and guidelines for research. The present study is based on patients who participated in the inpatient assessment and treatment program in the Emergency department San Luca Hospital of Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy and the Ordensklinikum Barmherzige Schwestern, Linz, Austria. During their first appointment all patients participating in the survey provided written informed consent to use their data for the quality control, and to publish the data in anonymized form as part of the quality control process. Therefore, an ethics approval was not obtained for the present analysis.

: Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for the publication of this report.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.