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Incidence of delirium in the critical care unit and risk factors in the Central Region, Saudi Arabia

Rami M. Abazid, Shaima A. Al-Harbi, Abdulaziz S. Allihimy, Dawood A. Aldrewesh, Sarah A. Alkuraydis, Ibtihal M. Alhammad, Ahmed Y. Elbashir, Adel M. Widyan and Samah I. Abohamr
Saudi Medical Journal April 2021, 42 (4) 445-448; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200754
Rami M. Abazid
From the Department of Cardiac Hybrid Imaging (Abazid), Ontario, Canada; from the College of Medicine (Al-Harbi, Allihimy, Aldrewesh, Alkuraydis, Alhammad), Qassim University; from the Department of Mathematics (Widyan), College of Science, Qassim University, Qassim, Buraydah; and from the Department of Cardiology, (Elbashir, Abohamr), Tanta University Hospital, Tanta, Egypt. Heart Health Center (Abohamr), King Saud Medical City. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Shaima A. Al-Harbi
From the Department of Cardiac Hybrid Imaging (Abazid), Ontario, Canada; from the College of Medicine (Al-Harbi, Allihimy, Aldrewesh, Alkuraydis, Alhammad), Qassim University; from the Department of Mathematics (Widyan), College of Science, Qassim University, Qassim, Buraydah; and from the Department of Cardiology, (Elbashir, Abohamr), Tanta University Hospital, Tanta, Egypt. Heart Health Center (Abohamr), King Saud Medical City. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Abdulaziz S. Allihimy
From the Department of Cardiac Hybrid Imaging (Abazid), Ontario, Canada; from the College of Medicine (Al-Harbi, Allihimy, Aldrewesh, Alkuraydis, Alhammad), Qassim University; from the Department of Mathematics (Widyan), College of Science, Qassim University, Qassim, Buraydah; and from the Department of Cardiology, (Elbashir, Abohamr), Tanta University Hospital, Tanta, Egypt. Heart Health Center (Abohamr), King Saud Medical City. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Dawood A. Aldrewesh
From the Department of Cardiac Hybrid Imaging (Abazid), Ontario, Canada; from the College of Medicine (Al-Harbi, Allihimy, Aldrewesh, Alkuraydis, Alhammad), Qassim University; from the Department of Mathematics (Widyan), College of Science, Qassim University, Qassim, Buraydah; and from the Department of Cardiology, (Elbashir, Abohamr), Tanta University Hospital, Tanta, Egypt. Heart Health Center (Abohamr), King Saud Medical City. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Sarah A. Alkuraydis
From the Department of Cardiac Hybrid Imaging (Abazid), Ontario, Canada; from the College of Medicine (Al-Harbi, Allihimy, Aldrewesh, Alkuraydis, Alhammad), Qassim University; from the Department of Mathematics (Widyan), College of Science, Qassim University, Qassim, Buraydah; and from the Department of Cardiology, (Elbashir, Abohamr), Tanta University Hospital, Tanta, Egypt. Heart Health Center (Abohamr), King Saud Medical City. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ibtihal M. Alhammad
From the Department of Cardiac Hybrid Imaging (Abazid), Ontario, Canada; from the College of Medicine (Al-Harbi, Allihimy, Aldrewesh, Alkuraydis, Alhammad), Qassim University; from the Department of Mathematics (Widyan), College of Science, Qassim University, Qassim, Buraydah; and from the Department of Cardiology, (Elbashir, Abohamr), Tanta University Hospital, Tanta, Egypt. Heart Health Center (Abohamr), King Saud Medical City. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ahmed Y. Elbashir
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Adel M. Widyan
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Samah I. Abohamr
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vol. 42 no. 4 445-448
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200754
PubMed 
33795502

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 22, 2020
  • Accepted February 22, 2021
  • Published online March 31, 2021.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Rami M. Abazid, MD⇑,
  2. Shaima A. Al-Harbi, MBBS,
  3. Abdulaziz S. Allihimy, MBBS,
  4. Dawood A. Aldrewesh, MBBS,
  5. Sarah A. Alkuraydis, MBBS,
  6. Ibtihal M. Alhammad, MBBS,
  7. Ahmed Y. Elbashir, MD, EFC & ABIM,
  8. Adel M. Widyan, MSc, PhD and
  9. Samah I. Abohamr, MD, PhD
  1. From the Department of Cardiac Hybrid Imaging (Abazid), Ontario, Canada; from the College of Medicine (Al-Harbi, Allihimy, Aldrewesh, Alkuraydis, Alhammad), Qassim University; from the Department of Mathematics (Widyan), College of Science, Qassim University, Qassim, Buraydah; and from the Department of Cardiology, (Elbashir, Abohamr), Tanta University Hospital, Tanta, Egypt. Heart Health Center (Abohamr), King Saud Medical City. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprints request to: Dr. Rami M. Abazid, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Section of Cardiac Hybrid Imaging, Victoria Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada. E-mail: ramiabazid{at}yahoo.com ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8504-1930
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