Roshanghalb, Afsaneh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1534-8179
Mazzali, Cristina http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2645-9939
Lettieri, Emanuele http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1235-989X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Lombardy Region Welfare General Directorate (RF2009-1483329)
Article History
Received: 31 August 2018
Accepted: 9 December 2019
First Online: 30 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: As an administrative consent, this study has been carried out within the research project “Utilization of regional health service databases for evaluating epidemiology, short and medium-term outcome, and process indexes in patients hospitalized for heart failure” supported by the Italian Ministry of Health (grant RF2009–1483329) and by the Lombardy Region Welfare General Directorate. The Lombardy Region Welfare General Directorate allowed access and use of the raw data described in this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.