Vella, Katia
Vella, Sandro
Savona-Ventura, C.
Vassallo, J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Endeavour Group B Scholarship Scheme
Article History
Received: 24 May 2022
Accepted: 30 November 2022
First Online: 15 December 2022
Declarations
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: The National Obstetric Information System collects and processes personal information regarding all deliveries for statistical and research purposes and in the interests of public health. All data is collected and processed in accordance to the Data Protection Act (Malta, 2001). Ethical approval to access the database was obtained by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery of the University of Malta [Reference no : 82/2016].
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.