Sameen Abbas
Quaid-i-Azam University
14 Papers
Sameen Abbas is an academic researcher from Quaid-i-Azam University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
The economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the USA, Europe, and Asia: results from a systematic review of the literature.
Anees ur Rehman,Anees ur Rehman,Mohamed Azmi Hassali,Sohail Ayaz Muhammad,Shahid Shah,Sameen Abbas,Irfhan Ali Hyder Ali,Ahmad Salman +7 more
TL;DR: Limiting the disease to early stage and preventing exacerbations may reduce the cost of management of COPD, and identify the key cost driving factors in management of patients.
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Risk Factors Associated With Medication Errors Among Patients Suffering From Chronic Disorders.
Muhammad Fawad Rasool,Anees ur Rehman,Anees ur Rehman,Imran Imran,Sameen Abbas,Shahid Shah,Ghulam Abbas,Irfanullah Khan,Sadia Shakeel,Sadia Shakeel,Mohamed Azmi Hassali,Khezar Hayat +11 more
TL;DR: Older age, overburdened healthcare system, number of prescribed drugs,Comorbidities, Charlson comorbidity index, and multiple prescribers to one patient are significant risk factors for the occurrence of medication errors in patients suffering from chronic diseases.
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of COPD; limitations and future prospects: a review of current literature
Anees ur Rehman,Anees ur Rehman,Mohamed Azmi Hassali,Sameen Abbas,Irfhan Ali Hyder Ali,Sabariah Noor Harun,Jaya Muneswarao,Jaya Muneswarao,Rabia Hussain +8 more
TL;DR: New approaches such as e-technology can play an essential role in improving compliance and adherence to therapy and new therapies with better and long-lasting effects and minimized side effects need to be discovered to improve the pharmacological management of COPD.
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Validation and clinical interpretation of the St George's respiratory questionnaire for COPD (SGRQ-C) after adaptation to Malaysian language and culture, in patients with COPD.
Anees ur Rehman,Anees ur Rehman,Mohamed Azmi Hassali,Sabariah Noor Harun,Sameen Abbas,Jaya Muneswarao,Irfhan Ali Hyder Ali,Rabia Hussain +7 more
TL;DR: The Malaysian version of SGRQ-C has a good psychometric property comparable to those of the original version and has a strong evidence of validity, reliability and responsiveness towards disease severity in Malaysian COPD patients and can be recommended as a reliable quality of life measure.
Utilization of short message service (SMS) in non-pharmacological management of hypertension. A pilot study in an URBAN public hospital of Multan, Pakistan
Anees ur Rehman,Anees ur Rehman,Farrukh Naeem,Sameen Abbas,Fizzah Ashfaq,Mohamed Azmi Hassali +5 more
TL;DR: SMS proved to be very useful to enhance adherence to non-pharmacological treatment of HTN (hypertension).
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