Saudi Med J
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To evaluate the anatomical variation of arterial collaterals and their prevalence in moyamoya and atherosclerosis. ⋯ Understanding the dynamics that have evolved in the development of the collaterals and therefore can improve both management and prognosis.
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To assess psychometric properties of team-based learning student assessment instrument (TBL-SAI) and TBL acceptance by student academic year. ⋯ The revised TBL-SAI is valid and reliable tool to measure the favor of TBL. Longitudinal studies across all academic levels are recommended to provide a clearer picture of the students' acceptance rate of TBL.
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To determine whether family environment and demographic factors such as family income and education produce any significant difference in postoperative performance of cochlear implant (CI) patients. ⋯ This study suggests that post-procedural performance of auditory perception and speech intelligibility in CI patients is significantly related to the family environment as well as the education levels of the parents.
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[No Abstract Available].
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To analyze the quantity and characteristics of Saudi Arabia's (SA's) dermatology research publications throughout the years. Methods: A literature search was conducted between October 2018 and July 2019 in the Dermatology Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. PubMed was used as a search engine, to retrieve dermatology-related publications in SA - from the date of the first article publication in 1982 to December 31, 2018. Results: Five hundred publications were included. Two-thirds of them were written between 2010 and 2018. ⋯ However, the quality of research remains inadequate. Saudi Arabia's dermatology research output is affected b y the availability of funding and national research projects, which could improve the studies' quality. We recommend the establishment of data registry units that can aid researchers in producing high-quality studies, while encouraging the collaboration of different centers in various SA regions (and abroad) to conduct research with generalizable results.