De Bernardi, Bruno https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1755-8871
Di Cataldo, Andrea
Garaventa, Alberto
Massirio, Paolo
Viscardi, Elisabetta
Podda, Marta Giorgia
Castellano, Aurora
D’Angelo, Paolo
Tirtei, Elisa
Melchionda, Fraia
Vetrella, Simona
De Leonardis, Francesco
D’Ippolito, Carmelita
Tondo, Annalisa
Nonnis, Antonella
Erminio, Giovanni
Gigliotti, Anna Rita
Mazzocco, Katia
Haupt, Riccardo
Article History
Received: 14 November 2018
Accepted: 19 December 2018
First Online: 11 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The RINB structure and protocol was approved by all the ethics committees of each participating center as a retrospective and prospective observational study. To be enrolled in the RINB, an informed consent form had to be signed by patients’ parents or guardians. For this reason, no specific further consent for this retrospective study needed to be sought. The RINB database is located at the secure Italian Inter-University Consortium CINECA headquarters in Italy, which is 9001:2015 and 27,001:2013 certified. It can be accessed only by authorized users.
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