Home infusion services in Saudi Arabia: Where are we standing?

Diseases management has reached the highest level of complexity and cost in history, worldwide, and in Saudi Arabia in particular, which led to prolonged, unnecessary hospital stays. There have been many recent innovative measures to reduce these issues. One is to provide home infusion services. Hen...

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Autores principales: Alhifany, Abdullah A., Ghilais, Abdulaziz T., Jammal, Jawad A., Alfaifi, Faisal M., Khayyat, Sarah M., Alotaibi, Abdulmalik S., Alessa, Mohammed, Almangour, Thamer A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10481352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37680756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2023.101750
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author Alhifany, Abdullah A.
Ghilais, Abdulaziz T.
Jammal, Jawad A.
Alfaifi, Faisal M.
Khayyat, Sarah M.
Alotaibi, Abdulmalik S.
Alessa, Mohammed
Almangour, Thamer A.
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description Diseases management has reached the highest level of complexity and cost in history, worldwide, and in Saudi Arabia in particular, which led to prolonged, unnecessary hospital stays. There have been many recent innovative measures to reduce these issues. One is to provide home infusion services. Hence, this narrative review emphasizes the expected benefits and challenges of such services and the applicability of their implementation in Saudi Arabia. A literature search was conducted via PubMed database, involving all published studies from inception until March 24th(,) 2023. Many studies showed positive impacts of home infusion on reducing the length of hospital stays, increasing cost-saving, and leading to high patient satisfaction.
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spelling pubmed-104813522023-09-07 Home infusion services in Saudi Arabia: Where are we standing? Alhifany, Abdullah A. Ghilais, Abdulaziz T. Jammal, Jawad A. Alfaifi, Faisal M. Khayyat, Sarah M. Alotaibi, Abdulmalik S. Alessa, Mohammed Almangour, Thamer A. Saudi Pharm J Review Diseases management has reached the highest level of complexity and cost in history, worldwide, and in Saudi Arabia in particular, which led to prolonged, unnecessary hospital stays. There have been many recent innovative measures to reduce these issues. One is to provide home infusion services. Hence, this narrative review emphasizes the expected benefits and challenges of such services and the applicability of their implementation in Saudi Arabia. A literature search was conducted via PubMed database, involving all published studies from inception until March 24th(,) 2023. Many studies showed positive impacts of home infusion on reducing the length of hospital stays, increasing cost-saving, and leading to high patient satisfaction. Elsevier 2023-10 2023-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10481352/ /pubmed/37680756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2023.101750 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Ghilais, Abdulaziz T.
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Alotaibi, Abdulmalik S.
Alessa, Mohammed
Almangour, Thamer A.
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