Angioi, Andrea
Cabiddu, Gianfranca
Conti, Maura
Pili, Gianfranco
Atzeni, Alice
Matta, Valeria
Cao, Riccardo
Floris, Matteo
Songini, Marco
Mulas, Maria Franca
Rosner, Mitchell
Pani, Antonello http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2811-7887
Article History
Received: 13 April 2017
Accepted: 15 March 2018
First Online: 2 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The current study has been approved by the ethics committee of Azienda Ospedaliera G. Brotzu; at the admission, we asked for a written consent to every patient (or their relatives when patients were not able to give a consent). This retrospective research involved human subjects and human data. The dataset has been built in an anonymous way by direct care physicians. Only direct care physicians had the access to this database. No other third persons were allowed to consult this database, although totally anonymized. This study has been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Dr. Antonello Pani is a member of the editorial board (Associate Editor) of this Journal.
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