Chiappini, Elena
Inturrisi, Federica
Orlandini, Elisa
de Martino, Maurizio
de Waure, Chiara http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4346-1494
Article History
Received: 24 April 2017
Accepted: 6 August 2018
First Online: 13 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The project has been approved by the Ethics Committee of the university hospital “Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Meyer” of Florence on October 4th 2010 (authorization number 2010/7880). Data were obtained from an electronic database using ICD-9-CM. A specific informed consent was not considered necessary according to the Ethics Committee approving the project, because this was a descriptive epidemiological study performed on administrative data, which are routinely collected from any hospitalized patient after obtaining his/her consent. Furthermore, no human experimentation was foreseen by the study and patient information was anonymized and de-identified prior to analysis.
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