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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 mortality in Saudi Arabia

Rawabi M. Alsayer, Hassan M. Alsharif, Abeer M. Al Baadani and Kiran A. Kalam
Saudi Medical Journal October 2021, 42 (10) 1083-1094; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.10.20210396
Rawabi M. Alsayer
From the Scientific Research Center (Alsayer); from the Department of Infectious Disease (Al Baadani, Kalam), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, and from the Department of Intensive Care (Alsharif), King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Hassan M. Alsharif
From the Scientific Research Center (Alsayer); from the Department of Infectious Disease (Al Baadani, Kalam), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, and from the Department of Intensive Care (Alsharif), King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Abeer M. Al Baadani
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Kiran A. Kalam
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vol. 42 no. 10 1083-1094
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.10.20210396
PubMed 
34611003

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 19, 2021
  • Accepted September 1, 2021
  • Published online October 4, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Rawabi M. Alsayer, BHSc⇑,
  2. Hassan M. Alsharif, FRCPc, ABIM,
  3. Abeer M. Al Baadani, MD and
  4. Kiran A. Kalam, MD.
  1. From the Scientific Research Center (Alsayer); from the Department of Infectious Disease (Al Baadani, Kalam), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, and from the Department of Intensive Care (Alsharif), King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Rawabi M. Alsayer, The Scientific Research Center, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: rm.alsayer{at}msd.med.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6153-2196
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