BACKGROUND In the Arab world, intervention and policy response to non-communicable diseases (NCD) has been weak despite extensive epidemiological evidence highlighting the alarmingly increased prevalence of chronic diseases. Generating genetic information is one key component to promote efficient disease management strategies. This study undertook a scoping review to generate the profile of the...

OBJECTIVES To explore the status of patient safety culture in Arab countries based on the findings of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC). DESIGN Systematic review. METHODS We performed electronic searches of the MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, ProQuest and PsychINFO, Google Scholar and PubMed databases, with manual searches of bibliographies of included articles and key journals...

T he Bulletin was in the minds of members of The Arab Group for Study of Diabetes for years, but its conception took place at the Alexandria Diabetic Days meeting held in Egypt in November 1991, and the first issue appeared in July 1992. The Bulletin is a scientific, medical journal concerned with various aspects of diabetes mellitus and its complications. Intended to contribute toward the enri...

The liver transplantation experience of 11 countries in the League of Arab States is presented in this Regional Perspective and provided in an ongoing series of such perspectives through the auspices of The Transplantation Society (1Y3). The history and current experience of 27 liver transplant centers throughout these 11 countries is a seminal recording of both deceased (DDLT) and living donor...

BACKGROUND Substance use disorders, which include substance abuse and substance dependence, are present in all regions of the world including Middle Eastern Arab countries. Bibliometric analysis is an increasingly used tool for research assessment. The main objective of this study was to assess research productivity in the field of substance use disorders in Arab countries using bibliometric in...

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common lethal rare genetic disease in the Caucasian populations. It is caused by a variety of sequence alterations in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR) gene. In Caucasian, one over 3,500 new born children suffers from the disease and one over 30 of them is at least carrier of a severe mutation in the CFTR gene. CF and CFTR-related disorders (CFT...

While the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide, one third of the diabetic patients will eventually develop chronic kidney disease. The aim of this review is to present the available data on diabetic nephropathy and its complications in the Arab Gulf countries. This will eventually help to raise the awareness of both government and healthcare systems towards the substantial va...

1Department of Research and Studies, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman (Correspondence to M.M. Afifi: [email protected]). Received: 30/09/03; accepted: 17/05/04 ABSTRACT The study aimed to identify mental health publications in Arab countries cited in PubMed from 1987 to 2002 and to analyse the year of publication, journal and field of research, specifically for child and adolescent mental hea...

BACKGROUND Medical education is an essential domain to produce physicians with high standards of medical knowledge, skills and professionalism in medical practice. This study aimed to investigate the research progress and prospects of GCC countries in medical education during the period 1996-2013. METHODS In this study, the research papers published in various global scientific journals durin...