Saudi SCD patients’ symptoms and quality of life relative to the number of ED visits

Ahmed, Anwar; Alaskar, Ahmed; McClish, Donna K.; Ali, Yosra; Aldughither, Mohammed H.; Al-Suliman, Ahmad M.; Malhan, Hafiz

doi:10.1186/s12873-016-0096-z

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“… 10 , 13 , 18 It may not be possible to compare our findings with those of these studies due to methodological issues, since Ganti et al 13 studied specific population, patients with mild traumatic brain injury. Ahmed et al 19 studied patients with sickle cell disease. Although the bivariate results showed gender was not associated with ED revisits within 72 hours of discharge, in the multivariate results, a higher risk of ED revisits was found among patients of female gender.…”

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Seventy-two-hour emergency department revisits among adults with chronic diseases: a Saudi Arabian study

Ahmed

AlBuraikan

Almazroa

et al. 2018

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BackgroundDespite the increase in adult emergency department (ED) utilization in Saudi Arabia, no studies have evaluated the 72-hour revisits. This study estimates the rate of 72-hour ED revisits and identifies its reasons and predictive factors among adults with chronic diseases.Patients and methodsA hospital-based retrospective study that included 24,206 ED discharges for adults with chronic diseases at the adult ED of King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh between September 13, 2015 and July 29, 2017 was performed. We extracted data on demographic information, reasons for ED visits/revisits, health insurance coverage, weekend ED arrival, and mortality.ResultsA sample of 24,206 ED discharges for 19,697 adults with at least one chronic disease was included in the analysis. The rate of 72-hour revisits in this study population was high: 3,144/24,206 (13%) had the first revisit and 319/3,144 (10.1%) had the second ED revisit within 72 hours. Diseases of the circulatory (19%) and genitourinary (15.8%) systems were the major reasons for the first ED revisit. The adjusted relative rate (aRR) of 72-hour ED revisits was higher in adults with chronic diseases and aged ≥60 years (aRR=1.360, 95% CI: 1.41–1.83; P=0.001), patients of female gender (aRR=1.24, 95% CI: 1.09–1.41; P=0.001), patients with health insurance coverage (aRR=4.23, 95% CI: 2.60–6.90; P=0.001), patients arriving to ED on a weekend (aRR=2.13, 95% CI: 1.03–4.41; P=0.041), and new patients (aRR=1.47, 95% CI: 1.25–1.73; P=0.001).ConclusionThe rate of 72-hour revisits is high among adults with chronic diseases. Advancing age, female gender, health insurance coverage, weekend ED arrival, and new patients are the important predictive factors of the high rate of 72-hour revisits. Continuous quality assessment and monitoring of factors related to patients are needed to reduce the frequency of early ED revisits after discharge.

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Seventy-two-hour emergency department revisits among adults with chronic diseases: a Saudi Arabian study

Ahmed

AlBuraikan

Almazroa

et al. 2018

TCRM

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“…This leads to several complications, including hand-foot syndrome, recurrent infections, delayed growth, vision problems, vasoocclusion, chronic hemolysis, acute and chronic kidney disease, and, eventually, progressive multiorgan damage [1–7] and stroke [8]. SCD sufferers also have decreased life expectancy and low quality of life [3, 7–10].…”

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“…Up to 27% of the population have the trait, with 2.6%–4.2% of which being manifested as SCD [3, 13, 15]. The Eastern province has the highest prevalence (145 cases/10,000 population), followed by southwestern provinces (24 cases/10,000 population) [3, 10, 16, 17]. High SCD prevalence in Saudi Arabia is due to the high occurrence of consanguinity between first cousins (> 50% of total marriages) [12–14, 18, 19] and the population's lack of awareness of inherited hematological diseases [14].…”

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Quantifying the Levels of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Associated with Sickle Cell Disease and Premarital Genetic Counseling in 350 Saudi Adults

Al-Qattan

Amlih

Sirajuddin

et al. 2019

Advances in Hematology

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Our study aims to observe the levels of knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) associated with sickle cell disease (SCD) and premarital genetic counseling (PMGC) in 351 Saudi adults. The relationships between KAP levels and sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, marital status, and educational level) were observed. The study was conducted in King Khalid University Hospital between February 21, 2017, and March 7, 2018. A total of 351 Saudi participants attending the primary care clinic were selected using convenience sampling and were given a self-administered questionnaire. Overall, the 351 participants had the best attitude (41% scoring “good”), followed by knowledge (28.8%), and, lastly, practice (19.1%). Out of the sociodemographic characteristics, age group was the most statistically significant in all the three categories (knowledge, attitude, and practice). The > 50-year age group performed the worst in all the three categories. Despite the advancements in public healthcare measures in Saudi Arabia, our study revealed that there are still many gaps to be filled regarding the knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with SCD and PMGC.

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“…According to the authors, there are numerous factors associated with a major reduction in all domains of QoL, including educational level, employment status, pathological staging, and tumor location [ 16 – 18 ]. There are numerous self-report questionnaires used to measure QoL, including the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) quality of life [ 19 ] which is used by Almutairi et al The Short-Form Health Survey SF-36 (the RAND 36-item) questionnaire [ 20 ] is a self-report questionnaire commonly used to assess QoL, and it has been used consistently in Saudi patients with sickle cell disease [ 21 , 22 ]. However, there is a paucity of data using SF-36 measure in Saudi cancer patients.…”

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Health-Related Predictors of Quality of Life in Cancer Patients in Saudi Arabia

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Research on Saudi Arabian cancer patients is a priority at King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Because there is limited research on the quality of life (QoL) of Saudi Arabian cancer patients, the aim of this study was to identify the predictors of the QoL in a sample of Saudis with cancer. In August 2016, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 438 patients with a variety of cancer types (145 breast, 109 colorectal, 38 leukemia, 45 lymphoma, and 99 other types) who attended the Oncology Outpatient Clinics at KAMC. Sociodemographics, clinical symptoms, and cancer treatments were collected for each patient. We used the SF-36 instrument to assess QoL. Of the cancer patients studied, 28.4% had a family history of cancer, and, according to subgroup analyses, the elderly, those lacking formal education, the unemployed, those diagnosed with Stage III/IV, and those with metastasis had significantly worse physical functions than the other cancer patients. According to multiple linear regression analyses, cancer patients who exercised regularly tended to have better physical function, emotional role function, vitality, social function, and general health (increase in SF-36 scores of 8.82, 9.75, 5.54, 6.66, and 4.97, respectively). Patients with first-year-after-cancer diagnosis tended to have poor emotional wellbeing, social function, and general health (decrease in SF-36 scores of 5.20, 7.34, and 6.12, respectively). Newly diagnosed cancer patients and patients who did not exercise tended to experience significantly poor QoL in several domains; thus, the effectiveness of exercise must be assessed in Saudi cancer patients as an intervention to improve QoL.

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Saudi SCD patients’ symptoms and quality of life relative to the number of ED visits

Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

Seventy-two-hour emergency department revisits among adults with chronic diseases: a Saudi Arabian study

Seventy-two-hour emergency department revisits among adults with chronic diseases: a Saudi Arabian study

Quantifying the Levels of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Associated with Sickle Cell Disease and Premarital Genetic Counseling in 350 Saudi Adults

Health-Related Predictors of Quality of Life in Cancer Patients in Saudi Arabia

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