Picotti, Stefano
Forte, Luca
Serrentino, Jo
Article History
Received: 13 February 2023
Accepted: 21 September 2023
First Online: 2 October 2023
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the independent Ethics Committee of International Institute of Clinical Ecology (IICE). Ethical review of the study was performed under IICE governance framework; ethical committee 1A; designated as Low Risk Observational Research (LROR.). IICE and its committee deemed the project to have no controversial ethical issues. To be in compliance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki; and with the local laws within the region of the study (Italian laws 196/2003).Informed Consent was obtained from patients involved in the study. All documents are compliant with regional study and ISO requirements as verified by the IICE committee’s European liaison officer.IICE category LROR study; IICE committee-1A members:Christine Pomerleau (participant ethics).Knud Pelzer (International projects ethics).Carmen Gerardi (IICE European liaison officer; study conception and design).
: Not applicable.
: Luca Forte is employed by Contrad Swiss. Jo Serrentino is director of IICE and consultant for Contrad Swiss. Stefano Picotti has no financial links or other to Contrad Swiss.