Bossola, Maurizio
Di Napoli, Anteo
Angelici, Laura http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3731-1606
Bargagli, Anna Maria
Cascini, Silvia
Kirchmayer, Ursula
Agabiti, Nera
Davoli, Marina
Marino, Claudia
Article History
Received: 18 November 2022
Accepted: 14 April 2023
First Online: 26 April 2023
Declarations
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: Ethics committee or institutional review board approval and informed consent for the specific study were not necessary because the authors used the data already collected at the beginning of the study from regional health information systems and the Regional Dialysis and Transplant Registry. The data were analysed anonymously through a standardized methodology according to the Italian national privacy law (national legislative decree on privacy policy n° 196/30 June 2003) and with the Declaration of Helsinki. Individuals cannot be identified directly or through identifiers and results are shown in aggregate form. The Department of Epidemiology of the Lazio Regional Health Service is the regional referral centre for epidemiological research, and it has full access to anonymized health information systems and Regional Dialysis and Transplant Registry.
: Consent for publication is not necessary as the regional law (n° 9/24 December 2010) implies that patients at entry into the Regional Dialysis and Transplant Registry sing a consent for use of the data for research purposes and related publications.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.