Trends in the Prevalence of Chronic Medication Use Among Children in Israel Between 2010 and 2019: Protocol for a Retrospective Cohort Study

Yair Sadaka   ^{1, 2 *} , MSH, MD, PhD ;   Dana Horwitz   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Leor Wolff   ³ , BA ;   Tomer Sela   ³ , BA, MBA ;   Joseph Meyerovitch   ^{4, 5, 6} , MD ;   Assaf Peleg   ⁷ , BSc ;   Eitan Bachmat   ⁷ , PhD ;   Arriel Benis   ^{8, 9 *} , PhD

¹ Neuro-Developmental Research Centre, Beer Sheva Mental Health Centre, Ministry of Health, Beer Sheva, Israel

² Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Shevs, Israel

³ Online and IT Division, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel

⁴ Community Division, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel

⁵ Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel

⁶ Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

⁷ Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

⁸ Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Technology Management, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel

⁹ Faculty of Digital Technologies in Medicine, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel

*these authors contributed equally