After being assigned a GDPR code and signing the informed consent, patients completed a questionnaire structured on several dimensions related to decision-making; the completion of the questionnaire was carried out by operators (medical staff from the hospital) and was completed by patients from several departments of the hospital, with various pathologies. The study was previously approved by the Ethics Committee of the hospital. In addition, the research followed the STROBE checklist for reporting observational studies [46 (link)]. The checklist is available in the supplementary materials (Table S1).
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