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Article History

Received: 1 February 2024

Accepted: 12 August 2024

First Online: 30 August 2024

Declarations

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: This study was approved by the ethics and clinical research committee at the Institut d’Investigació IDIAP Jordi Gol under the code 19/195-P and conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Information was obtained from electronic medical records stored in the centralized ECAP (computerized clinical history) database and extracted by the Department of Healthcare Evaluation and Research Management. Accordingly, it was not necessary to ask participants for their informed consent. The variables in the ECAP database were processed anonymously and with full confidentiality guarantees as established by Spanish national law and Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data, and to the free distribution of such data. The data used in this study are only available for the participating researchers, in accordance with current European and national laws. Thus, the distribution of the data is not allowed. However, researchers from public institutions can request data from SIDIAP. Ethics committee of (Idiap Jordi Gol i Gurina) waived the need for informed consent due to retrospective observational cohort study.

: Not Applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.