15 results match your criteria: "King Saud Ibn Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences[Affiliation]"

Healthcare providers use revenue cycle management (RCM) to track patient billing and revenue. The revenue cycle collects data from various systems and compiles it into a single RCM system connected to payers. Effective system integration improves revenue and financial stability.

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A Personal Health Record (PHR) is a patient-managed platform for health data. Most hospitals provide a PHR as an extension of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). However, there are unresolved issues around the adoption rate, functionalities, barriers and, more importantly, the impact of the PHR on patients' health.

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Machine Learning for Early Prediction of Sepsis in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Patients.

Medicina (Kaunas)

July 2023

Department of Health Informatics, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Ibn Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh 11481, Saudi Arabia.

Early detection of sepsis is crucial and can save lives. However, identifying sepsis early and accurately remains a difficult task in the medical field. This study aims to investigate a new machine-learning approach.

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Electronic Drug Alarms and Drug Utilization Reviews (DURs) are crucial in improving patient safety by reducing the dispensing of contraindicated medications and minimizing adverse drug events. The DUR system often generates low-level alerts, making it challenging for pharmacists and doctors to discern more critical alerts. This can result in alert fatigue, causing burnout and jeopardizing patient safety.

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The quality of clinical coding influences not only hospital revenue but also the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. Assessing the coders' satisfaction is essential to optimizing the quality of clinical coding. This mixed-method study used a qualitative approach to propose the study model while testing the model through a quantitative approach.

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Many healthcare organizations have adopted Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to improve the quality of care and help physicians make proper clinical decisions. The vital roles of EHRs can support the accuracy of diagnosis, suggest, and rationalize the provided care to patients. This study aims to understand the roles of EHRs in approaching proper differential diagnosis and optimizing patient safety.

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Smart infusion pump technology prevents errors caused by parenteral therapy. This paper aims to review the recent literature about smart pump uses, cases and adverse events, and strategies to minimize these disadvantages. Literature was explored from January 2000 to November 2021 using Google Scholar, PubMed, and ScienceDirect.

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Utilizing resources effectively is becoming more critical, especially with the ever-increasing healthcare cost. Little is known about the current practices used by healthcare organizations for the procurement, allocation, and utilization of medical resources. Moreover, the available literature needed to be enriched to bridge the link between resource utilization and allocation processes' performance and outcomes.

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Introduction: Information technology is vital to support dental care services and is yet to be thoroughly investigated. This study aims to assess the dentists' needs and requirements for health records from dental care providers' perspectives.

Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with dentists during clinic practices.

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Introduction: Telemedicine has the potential to enhance access to healthcare services across distances and this was of great value during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, concerns about user satisfaction in comparison to face-to-face (FTF) interaction remain inadequately addressed.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the impact of telemedicine technology from the patient perspective by comparing patient satisfaction and cost savings of follow-up visits through telemedicine with those of FTF clinical visits.

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Background: Retention of basic biomedical sciences knowledge is of great importance in medical practice. This study aimed to provide some insights into medical interns' ability to recall theoretical knowledge of medical microbiology and to explore factors that affect its retention.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted between January and March 2019, an anonymized questionnaire with 10 validated multiple-choice questions about medical microbiology was distributed as hard copies to test the ability to recall knowledge of Saudi medical interns in three tertiary training hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Progressive Ataxia and Neurologic Regression in -Associated Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome.

Neurol Genet

June 2021

Center for Genetics and Inherited Diseases (E.A., N.A.M.A.), and Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences (N.A.M.A.), Taibah University, Almadinah Almunwarah; Department of Adults Neurology (M.O.), National Neuroscience Institute, King Fahad Medical City; Section of Medical Genetics (M.A.O.E.), Childrens Specialist Hospital, King Fahad Medical City; Department of Medical Imaging in King Abdulaziz Medical City (M.A.), King Saud Ibn Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center; Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Medicine Administration (I.B.), King Fahad Medical City; Molecular Pathology (M.S.), Clinical Laboratory Medicine Administration, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Laboratory Medicine (R.W.A.P.), Boston Childrens Hospital, MA; Section of Medical Genetics (A.A.), Childrens Specialist Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To identify the genetic cause of a late-onset immunodeficiency and subacute progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting cognition, motor, visual, and cerebellar systems in a patient with a family history of 2 younger siblings with an early-onset immunodeficiency disease.

Methods: Physical examinations, immunologic, brain MRI, whole-exome sequencing, and segregation studies were used to identify the genetic and neuroimmunologic etiology of disease in this family.

Results: We identified a homozygous loss-of-function (LOF) mutation (c.

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Cardiometabolic risk among Saudi children and adolescents: Saudi childrens overweight, obesity, and lifestyles (S.Ch.O.O.Ls) study.

Ann Saudi Med

August 2015

Dr. Fahad Abdullah Al-Hussein, Department of Family and Community Medicine,, College of Medicine, King Saud Ibn AbdulAziz University for Health Sciences,, King Abdulaziz Medical City,, National Guard Health Affairs,, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, T: +966112520088 loc. 1514, F: +966112520305,

Background And Objectives: Diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease are major contributors to the global burden of disease, with a high reported prevalence of risk factors among different populations. Early and efficient assessment of cardiometabolic risk is important to identify target groups for preventive interventions. The aims of Saudi children's overweight, obesity, and lifestyles study were to estimate the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and to compare the different paradigms of assessing such risk among children and adolescents.

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Systemic vasculitis with prolonged pyrexia, recurrent facial urticaria, skin nodules, pleural effusions and venous thrombosis: an unusual presentation of an uncommon disease.

Ger Med Sci

February 2012

King Saud ibn Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and the Department of Medicine 1443, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Classically presenting with multiple or single peripheral cytopenias of variable severity, the myelodysplastic syndromes may occasionally present with bizarre manifestations that confuse the clinical picture and result in significant delays in making the correct diagnosis. We describe the case of an elderly male patient whose presentation with prolonged unexplained fever coupled with cutaneous, pulmonary and other systemic features of inflammation was finally diagnosed as having a primary myelodysplastic syndrome with associated vasculitis after a delay of 4 years.

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Background: Diabetes constitutes a major burden of disease globally. Both primary and secondary prevention need to improve in order to face this challenge. Improving management of diabetes in primary care is therefore of fundamental importance.

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