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BMJ quality improvement reports, 2017

Cancer patients are frequently admitted to hospital for many reasons. During their hospitalizatio... more Cancer patients are frequently admitted to hospital for many reasons. During their hospitalization they are handled by different physicians and other care providers. Maintaining good communication among physicians is essential to assure patient safety and the delivery of quality patient care. Several incidents of miscommunication issues have been reported due to lack of a standardized communication tool for patients' hand over among physicians at our oncology department. Hence, this improvement project aims at assessing the impact of using a standardized communication tool on improving patients' hand over and quality of patient care. A quality improvement team has been formed to address the issue of cancer patients' hand over. We adopted specific hand over tool to be used by physicians. This tool was developed based on well-known and validated communication tool called ISBAR - Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation, which contains pertinent inform...

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2015

Jahdali (2015) Effect of age and gender in the prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness among a... more Jahdali (2015) Effect of age and gender in the prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness among a sample of the Saudi population,

Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 2015

The aim of this study was to determine the risk and symptoms for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) am... more The aim of this study was to determine the risk and symptoms for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) among Saudi Arabian adults. This cross-sectional survey among healthy participants was conducted at King Abdulaziz Medical City-Riyadh (KAMC-R). The Berlin Questionnaire (BQ) was used to assess the risk of OSA, and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) was used to measure excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) as a manifestation of OSA in participants. The total number of participants was 2095, mean age of the sample was 42.3 (±15.5) years and 848 (40.7%) were females. Using BQ, 31.9% of the participants were classified as high risk for OSA (33.4% among females and 31.1% among males). The risk for OSA increased with age: 19.4% among the young group (≤29 years), 35.2% among the middle-aged (30-59 years), and 41% among the elderly (≥60 years). The risk of symptomatic OSA by combining both BQ and ESS was 7.8% and increased with age (5.5% among the young group, 8.5% among the middle-aged, and 9.7% among the elderly), but there was no difference between gender (8% among females vs. 7.7% among males). This study showed that the risk for OSA is very high, is equal in both genders and it increases with age and obesity.

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2014

Background: The Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) is a questionnaire widely used in developed countr... more Background: The Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) is a questionnaire widely used in developed countries to measure daytime sleepiness and diagnose sleep disorders. Objective: This study aimed to develop an ESS questionnaire for the Arabic population (ArESS), to determine ArESS internal consistency, and to measure ArESS test-retest reproducibility. It also investigated whether the normal range of ESS scores of healthy people in different cultures are similar. Methods: The original ESS questionnaire was translated from English to Arabic and back-translated to English. In both the English and Arabic translations of the survey, ESS consists of eight different situations. The subject was asked to rate the chance of dozing in each situation on a scale of 0-3 with total scores ranging between 0 (normal sleep) and 24 (very sleepy). An Arabic translation of the ESS questionnaire was administered to 90 healthy subjects. Results: Item analysis revealed high internal consistency within ArESS questionnaire (CronbachÕs alpha = 0.86 in the initial test, and 0.89 in the retest). The test-retest intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) shows that the test-retest reliability was substantially high: ICC = 0.86 (95% confidence interval: 0.789-0.909, p-value < 0.001). The difference in ArESS scores between the initial test and retest was not significantly different from zero (average difference = À0.19, t = À0.51, df = 89, p-value = 0.611). In this study, the averages of the ESS scores

The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2014

Introduction: Bronchial asthma is a common chronic disease that affects people of all ages. Insuf... more Introduction: Bronchial asthma is a common chronic disease that affects people of all ages. Insufficient asthma control may cause frequent emergency department (ED) visit by patients who seek crisis management of their asthma. Objectives: This study aims to identify the factors associated with poor asthma control. Methods: We enrolled 450 participants who visited (ED) for asthma management. Besides assessing the asthma severity classification, we assess each participant for asthma control over the months preceding ED visit using Asthma Control Test score. We employed an independent t-test and ANOVA to assess if the differences in asthma control scores by demographic and clinical characteristics are statistically significant. The dependence of asthma control scores on demographic and clinical characteristics had been investigated with stepwise regression model. Results: There are differences in asthma control scores by the number of ED visits and severity of asthma classification (P values = 0.001). It was found that participant age, multiple ED visits, severe persistent, moderate persistent, mild persistent, received education about asthma medication and received education about asthma disease were greatly affected asthma control scores. For instance, the asthma control is predicted to decrease by 10.688 when participant had severe persistent asthma. Similarly, the asthma control is predicted to decrease by 5.647 when the participant had moderate persistent asthma. Conclusions: This study identified many factors that may explain insufficient asthma control.

Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, 2014

Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung condition of uncertain etiology... more Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung condition of uncertain etiology that causes progressive shortness of breath, cough, reduced exercise tolerance and quality of life. This may, at least in part, be due to daily physical inactivity. Therefore symptomatic patients with lung fibrosis may be good candidates for comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programs. Aim of work: To evaluate the role of PR program in improving the functional status and dyspnea scale in patients with IPF. Patients and methods: Thirty patients had IPF, according to the recent consensus statement, were subjected to PR program that mainly consisted of three sessions per week for 8 week duration. The program basically consisted of upper and lower extremity exercises, breathing exercise, and chest physical therapy. Psychological support and patient education rounded out the program. Spirometery, diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide [DLco], arterial blood gas analysis, 6-minute walking distance (6MWD), dyspnea rating with the Modified Borg Scale (MBS) and health-related quality of life (HRQL) score using the St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) score were evaluated at baseline, after 4 weeks and at the end of the eighth week of the program. Results: There were significant improvement in dyspnea score (P = 0.001), 6MWD (P = 0.001), % predicted of forced vital capacity (FVC% predicted) (P = 0.001) and HRQL (P = 0.001). However, arterial blood gas values and DLco showed no significant improvement at the end of the program. Conclusions: PR improves dyspnea score, exercise capacity and HRQL in patients with IPF.

Annals of hepatology, Aug 1, 2017

Background/propose. Sleep disturbance and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) have been reported i... more Background/propose. Sleep disturbance and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) have been reported in patients with hepatic cirrhosis with no hepatic encephalopathy (HE). The objective of this study was to evaluate daytime sleepiness and risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) among liver cirrhosis patients. A cross-sectional study was conducted at King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC)-Riyadh over a period of six months, using a structured questionnaire that investigated: 1) Sleep patterns and daytime sleepiness using the Epworth Sleeping Scale (ESS), and 2) The risk for sleep apnea using the Berlin Questionnaire (BQ). We enrolled patients with a confirmed diagnosis of liver cirrhosis who were being followed at the hepatology and pre-liver transplant clinics. We enrolled 200 patients with liver cirrhosis, 57.5% of whom were male. The mean age was 60 (± SD 12.2). The reported prevalence of EDS, OSA, and both EDS and OSA were 29.5%, 42.9%, and 13.6%, respectively. The prevalence of EDS was hi...

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