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Anas Khan

Associate Professor, College Medicine, KSU
Verified email at ksu.edu.sa
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[HTML][HTML] Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of emergency department staff towards disaster and emergency preparedness at tertiary health care hospital in central …

A Nofal, I Alfayyad, A Khan, Z Al Aseri… - Saudi medical …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives: To assess the knowledge, practices, and attitudes regarding disaster and
emergency preparedness among Emergency Department (ED) staff. Methods: This cross-sectional …

COVID-19 social distancing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Bold measures in the face of political, economic, social and religious challenges

S Yezli, A Khan - Travel medicine and infectious disease, 2020 - Elsevier
Social distancing at its various levels has been a key measure to mitigate the transmission
of COVID-19. The implementation of strict measures for social distancing is challenging, …

[HTML][HTML] Hajj 2021: Role of mitigation measures for health security

AA Alahmari, AA Khan, FA Alamri, YS Almuzaini… - Journal of Infection and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose After the impressive results of the 2020 Hajj management, Saudi authorities
decided to expand the quota to 60,000 pilgrims in 2021, which resulted in a convenient and …

COVID-19 mitigation plans during Hajj 2020: a success story of zero cases

H Jokhdar, A Khan, S Asiri, W Motair, A Assiri… - Health …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The Hajj pilgrimage, held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is among the largest mass gatherings
in the world. More than 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims assemble from over 180 countries …

The role of digital technology in responding to COVID-19 pandemic: Saudi Arabia's experience

A Khan, A Alahmari, Y Almuzaini, N Alturki… - … and Healthcare Policy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a single-chain ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus. As of March …

[HTML][HTML] Heat related illnesses: Review of an ongoing challenge

AA Khan - Saudi medical journal, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Climate change is the most challenging natural calamity of chronic nature that presents
intense episodes of heat waves, and events. Effects of heat waves and increasing average …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia: a national retrospective study

YM Alsofayan, SM Althunayyan, AA Khan… - Journal of infection and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The global battle to contain the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic rages on. Previous studies described the clinical characteristics of COVID-19, but …

[PDF][PDF] COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia: the national health response

A Khan, Y Alsofayan, A Alahmari, J Alowais… - Eastern Mediterranean …, 2021 - apps.who.int
Background: With the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), most countries rushed
to take early measures to control this disease. Aims: This paper describes and evaluates …

[HTML][HTML] The Jeddah tool: a health risk assessment framework for mass gatherings

S Yezli, AA Khan - Saudi Medical Journal, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mass gatherings are occasions attended by enough people to strain the preparation and
response resources of the host. 1 They can be spontaneous or planned in advance and …

Survival and estimation of direct medical costs of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

AA Khan, Y AlRuthia, B Balkhi, SM Alghadeer… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Objectives: Assess the survival of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients
across age groups, sex, use of mechanical ventilators (MVs), nationality, and intensive …