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Primary care physicians’ knowledge of sleep medicine and barriers to transfer of patients with sleep disorders

A cross-sectional study

Ahmed H. Saleem, Faisal A. Al Rashed, Ghassan A. Alkharboush, Othman M. Almazyed, Awad H. Olaish, Aljohara S. Almeneessier and Ahmed S. BaHammam
Saudi Medical Journal May 2017, 38 (5) 553-559; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.5.17936
Ahmed H. Saleem
From the Department of Medicine (Saleem, Al Rashed, Alkharboush, Almazyed, Olaish, BaHammam), Sleep Disorders Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Faisal A. Al Rashed
From the Department of Medicine (Saleem, Al Rashed, Alkharboush, Almazyed, Olaish, BaHammam), Sleep Disorders Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ghassan A. Alkharboush
From the Department of Medicine (Saleem, Al Rashed, Alkharboush, Almazyed, Olaish, BaHammam), Sleep Disorders Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Othman M. Almazyed
From the Department of Medicine (Saleem, Al Rashed, Alkharboush, Almazyed, Olaish, BaHammam), Sleep Disorders Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Awad H. Olaish
From the Department of Medicine (Saleem, Al Rashed, Alkharboush, Almazyed, Olaish, BaHammam), Sleep Disorders Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Aljohara S. Almeneessier
From the Department of Medicine (Saleem, Al Rashed, Alkharboush, Almazyed, Olaish, BaHammam), Sleep Disorders Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed S. BaHammam
From the Department of Medicine (Saleem, Al Rashed, Alkharboush, Almazyed, Olaish, BaHammam), Sleep Disorders Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Article Information

vol. 38 no. 5 553-559
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.5.17936
PubMed 
28439609

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 20, 2016
  • Accepted January 25, 2017
  • Published online May 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Ahmed H. Saleem, MD,
  2. Faisal A. Al Rashed, MD,
  3. Ghassan A. Alkharboush, MD,
  4. Othman M. Almazyed, MD,
  5. Awad H. Olaish, MSAIS,
  6. Aljohara S. Almeneessier, MD, ABFM and
  7. Ahmed S. BaHammam, MD, FRCP⇑
  1. From the Department of Medicine (Saleem, Al Rashed, Alkharboush, Almazyed, Olaish, BaHammam), Sleep Disorders Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Almeneessier), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprints request to: Prof. Ahmed S. BaHammam, Director, Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: ashammam2{at}gmail.com/ashammam{at}ksu.edu.sa ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1706-6167
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