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Article History

Received: 13 July 2024

Accepted: 7 September 2024

First Online: 17 September 2024

Declarations

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: This is an exploratory survey on pain therapy centers and does not investigate on therapies or pathologies relating to the individual patient. It also does not collect sensitive or personal or clinical data. For all these reasons, according to the current legislation for non-interventional or observational studies (Ministerial Circular No. 6, September 2, 2002), it is necessary to submit a survey for approval by an ethics committee only if “the study focused on problems or pathologies in the within which medicinal products are prescribed in the usual way in accordance with the conditions set out in the marketing authorization. The inclusion of the patient in a specific therapeutic strategy is not decided in advance by the trial protocol, but is part of normal clinical practice and the decision to prescribe the medicine is completely independent from that of including the patient in the study.” Our survey was administered to about non-patient 15,000 contacts, voluntarily registered on the SIAARTI platforms. In addition, all participants agreed to participate in the survey and accepted informed consent.

: Not competent.

: The authors declare no competing interests.