Ability of Dentists and Students to Detect Caries by Using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System.

Objective: To evaluate the ability of dentists and dental students to detect caries by using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS).

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Riyadh city and in the College of Dentistry at King Saud University (KSU) in Saudi Arabia. The study sample included a cluster sampling of 50 private clinics (100 dentists) and all 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-year students (393 students).

The Development of Swedish Military Healthcare System: Part II-Re-evaluating the Military and Civilian Healthcare Systems in Crises Through a Dialogue and Study Among Practitioners.

Introduction: Historical changes have transformed Sweden from being an offensive to a defensive and collaborative nation with national and international engagement, allowing it to finally achieve the ground for the civilian-military collaboration and the concept of a total defense healthcare. At the same time, with the decreasing number of international and interstate conflicts, and the military's involvement in national emergencies and humanitarian disaster relief, both the need and the role of the military healthcare system within the civilian society have been challenged. The recent impact of the COVID-19 in the USA and the necessity of military involvement have led health practitioners to anticipate and re-evaluate conditions that might exceed the civilian capacity of their own countries and the need to have collaboration with the military healthcare.

Shortage of psychotropic medications in community pharmacies in Saudi Arabia: Causes and solutions.

Patients with mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, who seek medical care in private psychiatric clinics in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have recently expressed concerns to doctors about difficulty in filling psychotropic medications, such as Amitriptyline and Aripiprazole, at retail community pharmacies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a shortage of some commonly prescribed psychotropic medications in retail community pharmacies in Saudi Arabia, and if so, to explore the possible reasons behind the shortage of these medications. The availability of 28 commonly prescribed psychotropic medications was checked in multiple retail community pharmacies in 4 different regions of Saudi Arabia.

The use of pharmacoeconomic evidence to support formulary decision making in Saudi Arabia: Methodological recommendations.

In pharmacoeconomics the costs and consequences of alternative medications are compared. Many countries have begun to use pharmacoeconomic evidence to support decisions on licensing, pricing, reimbursement, or addition to the formulary. In Saudi Arabia, it is not mandatory to submit cost effectiveness evidence to support licensing or addition to the formulary decisions however, data will be considered if submitted.

Prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications among the elderly population in an ambulatory care setting in a Saudi military hospital: trend and cost.

Aim: To explore the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in the elderly, to identify the trends and the patterns of prescribing such medication, and to calculate the associated direct medication cost of such practice in a Saudi hospital.

Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of patients who were aged 65 years or older on at least one PIM. The source of our data was outpatient pharmacy prescription records at Riyadh Military Hospital (RMH) for 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Accuracy of the medication history at admission to hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Objective: Inaccurate medication history at admission to hospitals leads to preventable adverse drug events, which in turn increase mortality, morbidity, and health care costs. The objective of this study was to investigate the role of pharmacists in identifying discrepancies in medication histories at admission to a tertiary referral hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Methods: We performed a prospective observational study in a 1200 bed tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Home intravenous antibiotics in a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Background And Objective: Home intravenous (IV) antibiotic programs are becoming increasingly popular worldwide because of their efficacy and safety. However, in Saudi Arabia these programs have not yet become an integrated part of the health care system. We present our experience with a home IV antibiotic program, as one of the major health care providers in Saudi Arabia.

Quality issues in continuing medical education in Saudi Arabia.

The issue of continuing medical education (CME) in Saudi Arabia is no longer quantity but rather quality. Quality Management (QM) of the current huge number of CME activities is essential to ensure its merits and outcomes. Sound evaluation is the cornerstone of any QM process to CME.

Evaluation of drug and poison information center in Saudi Arabia during the period 2000-2002.

Objective: To evaluate the profile of the requestors, the number and content of questions which were received during the period of May 2000 - December 2002.

Methods: A total of 1967 requests were evaluated. The questions were sorted according to source of callers, caller identification, the content of the questions, search data and time required to answer the questions.

Initial emergency department trauma scores from the OPALS study: the case for the motor score in blunt trauma.

Objectives: To compare the predictive accuracy of the Revised Trauma Score (RTS), the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), and their components in blunt trauma patients.

Methods: This multicenter prospective cohort study was conducted in 20 communities as part of the Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study. It included adult trauma patients with Injury Severity Scores >12.