About the Authors

Amiel A. Dror

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

amieldror@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Nicole Morozov

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

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

Amani Daoud

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Yoav Namir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Orly Yakir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Statistical Analysis Division, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel

Yair Shachar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel

Mark Lifshitz

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

Affiliation Computer Data Division, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel

Ella Segal

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

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Lior Fisher

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

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Matti Mizrachi

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Netanel Eisenbach

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Doaa Rayan

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Maayan Gruber

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Amir Bashkin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel, Endocrinology Unit, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel

Edward Kaykov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel, Geriatric Medicine Department, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel

Masad Barhoum

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel

Michael Edelstein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Eyal Sela

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.