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Impact of shift work on sleep and daytime performance among health care professionals

Sultan M. Alshahrani, Abdulsalam A. Baqays, Abdelelah A. Alenazi, Abdulaziz M. AlAngari and Ahmad N. AlHadi
Saudi Medical Journal August 2017, 38 (8) 846-851; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.8.19025
Sultan M. Alshahrani
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, and the College of Medicine (Baqays, Alenazi, AlAngari), and the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair (SPHRAC), Department of Psychiatry (AlHadi), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulsalam A. Baqays
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, and the College of Medicine (Baqays, Alenazi, AlAngari), and the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair (SPHRAC), Department of Psychiatry (AlHadi), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdelelah A. Alenazi
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, and the College of Medicine (Baqays, Alenazi, AlAngari), and the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair (SPHRAC), Department of Psychiatry (AlHadi), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulaziz M. AlAngari
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, and the College of Medicine (Baqays, Alenazi, AlAngari), and the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair (SPHRAC), Department of Psychiatry (AlHadi), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmad N. AlHadi
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vol. 38 no. 8 846-851
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.8.19025
PubMed 
28762438

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 16, 2017
  • Accepted May 30, 2017
  • Published online August 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. Sultan M. Alshahrani, MD⇑,
  2. Abdulsalam A. Baqays, MBBS,
  3. Abdelelah A. Alenazi, MBBS,
  4. Abdulaziz M. AlAngari, MBBS and
  5. Ahmad N. AlHadi, MD
  1. From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, and the College of Medicine (Baqays, Alenazi, AlAngari), and the SABIC Psychological Health Research & Applications Chair (SPHRAC), Department of Psychiatry (AlHadi), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Sultan M. Alshahrani, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dr_sultan2{at}hotmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1406-6572
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