BACKGROUND In Saudi Arabia, the mortality of diabetes is currently reported at 6%. A well-administered referral system is crucial in aiding the management of this disease. METHOD A single reviewer employed a systematic approach to searching the literature databases with regard to the question: what are the attributes of referral systems in Saudi Arabia for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)?...

This paper contributes to the issue of eGovernment implementation in Saudi Arabia by discussing the current situation of ministry websites. It evaluates the rate of web development progress of vital government websites in Saudi Arabia using the eGovernment stage model. In 2010, Saudi Arabia ranked 58 th in the world and 4 th in the Gulf region in eGovernment readiness according to United Nation...

Saudi Arabia is the largest state in Middle East and is a major force in the Arab world due to its oil wealth. The prevalence of disability is growing rapidly in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The government has taken number of reforms to improve health care system. As a consequence health care services improved significantly in recent decades. There is still greater requirement for rehabilitatio...

Saudi Arabia is a large, multicultural country. Studies have reported caries prevalence is high in most regions and cities of Saudi Arabia [1]. The national prevalence of dental caries and its severity in children of Saudi Arabia was estimated to be approximately 80% for the primary dentition with a mean dmft of 5.0 and approximately 70% for children’s permanent dentition with a mean DMFT score...

Saudi Arabia is predetermined to implement eGovernment and provide world-class government services to citizens by 2010. However, this initiative will be meaningless if the people didn’t adopt these electronic services. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine success factors that will facilitate the adoption of eGovernment in Saudi Arabia. The results of the literature review have b...

In this paper, we introduce an approach to improve and support decision-making process for breast cancer management in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This can be accomplished by applying different association rule mining algorithms on the cancer information system in Saudi Arabia. It also provides valuable information about predicted distribution and segmentation of cancer in Saudi Arabia, which ...

While the Web, cell phone „apps‟ and cloud computing put a world of information at our fingertips, that information is under constant threat from cyber vandals and hackers. Although awareness of information threats is growing in the Western world, in places like Saudi Arabia, information security is very poor. Unlike Western pluralistic democracies, Saudi Arabia is a highly-censored country, wi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the epidemiological profile and strain diversity in the light of recent published studies to provide an updated comprehensive picture of the significance of the effect of this virus in Saudi Arabia. METHODS The epidemiology, disease burden, and strain diversity of rotavirus in Saudi Arabia were reviewed using 22 studies of rotavirus and the etiology of diarrhea. We revi...