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Article History

Received: 20 September 2024

Accepted: 28 January 2025

First Online: 12 February 2025

Declarations

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: This article followed the guidelines provided by Legislation and the National Bioethical Committee and guidelines by Helsinki Declaration. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Milan (approval n. 26/2022).The consent to participate is not applicable, as this is an observational study based on data routinely collected by the ATS of Milan, a public body of the Regional Health Service – Lombardy Region. The ATS has among its institutional functions, established by the Lombardy Region legislation (R.L. 23/2015), the government of the care pathway at the individual level in the regional social and health care system, the evaluation of the services provided to, and the outcomes of, patients residing in the covered area. This study is also ethically compliant with the National Law (D.Lgs. 101/2018) and the “General Authorisation to Process Personal Data for Scientific Research Purposes” (nos. 8 and 9 of 2016, referred to in the Data Protection Authority action of December 13, 2018). Data were anonymized with a unique identifier in the different datasets before being used for the analyses.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.