About the Authors

Tommaso Gili

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

Giampaolo Benelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampaolo Benelli, Elisabetta Buscarini, Ciro Canetta, Giuseppe La Piana, Guido Merli, Alessandro Scartabellati, Giovanni Viganò

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Radiology Unit, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Elisabetta Buscarini

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampaolo Benelli, Elisabetta Buscarini, Ciro Canetta, Giuseppe La Piana, Guido Merli, Alessandro Scartabellati, Giovanni Viganò

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Gastroenterology Unit, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Ciro Canetta

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampaolo Benelli, Elisabetta Buscarini, Ciro Canetta, Giuseppe La Piana, Guido Merli, Alessandro Scartabellati, Giovanni Viganò

Roles Investigation

Affiliations High Care Medical Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, Emergency Medicine Unit Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Giuseppe La Piana

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampaolo Benelli, Elisabetta Buscarini, Ciro Canetta, Giuseppe La Piana, Guido Merli, Alessandro Scartabellati, Giovanni Viganò

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Pneumology 2 Unit, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Guido Merli

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampaolo Benelli, Elisabetta Buscarini, Ciro Canetta, Giuseppe La Piana, Guido Merli, Alessandro Scartabellati, Giovanni Viganò

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Alessandro Scartabellati

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampaolo Benelli, Elisabetta Buscarini, Ciro Canetta, Giuseppe La Piana, Guido Merli, Alessandro Scartabellati, Giovanni Viganò

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Pneumology 1 Unit, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Giovanni Viganò

Contributed equally to this work with: Giampaolo Benelli, Elisabetta Buscarini, Ciro Canetta, Giuseppe La Piana, Guido Merli, Alessandro Scartabellati, Giovanni Viganò

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Emergency Unit, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Roberto Sfogliarini

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Health Directorate, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Giovanni Melilli

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Health Directorate, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Roberto Assandri

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinical Investigation Laboratory, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Daniele Cazzato

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Technology, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Davide Sebastiano Rossi

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Technology, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Susanna Usai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico "Carlo Besta", Milan, Italy

Guido Caldarelli

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Guido.Caldarelli@unive.it

Affiliations DSMN Ca’Foscari University, Venice Italy and ECLT, Venice, Italy, ECLT, Venice, Italy, ISC-CNR Uos "Sapienza", Rome, Italy

Irene Tramacere

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Scientific Directorate, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Germano Pellegata

Roles Investigation

Affiliation General Directorate, Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy

Giuseppe Lauria

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico "Carlo Besta", Milan, Italy, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences “Luigi Sacco”, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.