Sleep medicine in Saudi Arabia: Current problems and future challenges

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-10

  Bahammam, Ahmed S ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Saudi Arabia; sleep; sleep centers; sleep disordered breathing; sleep laboratories; sleep medicine

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NARCOLEPSY; OBESITY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POPULATION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; SLEEP MEDICINE; SNORING; STAFF TRAINING;

EID: 78650949893     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.74269     Document Type: Review

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