Na’amnih, Wasef
Katz, Racheli
Goren, Sophy
Ben-Tov, Amir
Ziv-Baran, Tomer
Chodick, Gabriel
Muhsen, Khitam http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1086-7559
Funding for this research was provided by:
Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (KM-PI, GH Co-PI 17/2014-R)
Article History
Received: 12 February 2019
Accepted: 9 August 2019
First Online: 20 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Helsinki committee of Bayit Balev Medical Center of MHS (number 47/2014) and the ethics committee of Tel Aviv University approved the study protocol. Since this was a retrospective study in which we used coded (anonymized) administrative data from medical records, the Helsinki committee granted exemption from informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.