García-Serrano, Cristina
Mirada, Glòria
Marsal, Josep R
Ortega, Marta
Sol, Joaquim http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1424-8958
Solano, Rubén
Artigues, Eva M
Estany, Pepi
Article History
Received: 14 January 2020
Accepted: 5 May 2020
First Online: 19 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the ethics and clinical research committee at the <i>Institut d’Investigació IDIAP Jordi Gol</i> under the code P17/226. The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Information was obtained from electronic medical records stored in the centralized ECAP database and was 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 national law and Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.