Roberto, Giuseppe http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6442
Barone-Adesi, Francesco
Giorgianni, Francesco
Pizzimenti, Valeria
Ferrajolo, Carmen
Tari, Michele
Bartolini, Claudia
Da Cas, Roberto
Maggini, Marina
Spila-Alegiani, Stefania
Francesconi, Paolo
Trifirò, Gianluca
Poluzzi, Elisabetta
Baccetti, Fabio
Gini, Rosa
Article History
Received: 9 November 2017
Accepted: 9 January 2019
First Online: 7 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This is an observational, non-interventional database study, re-utilising administrative data for the purpose of addressing a research question. The participating centres all have general legal and ethical frameworks that allow them for conducting research by making secondary use of administrative data, upon approval of an internal governance board. Permission to contribute to this study was granted by the governance boards of the Agenzia regionale di Sanità della Toscana for Tuscany data, National Institute of Health for Umbria data and University of Messina for Caserta data.
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: F.B. was paid as consultant by Merk, Sharpe&Dohem and for educational support in CME events by Eli-Lilly, Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Merk, Sharpe&Dohme. All the other authors declare no conflict of interest relevant to this study.
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