SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Bridging the gap in rural and underserved areas through AI‐enabled solutions	57
Clot twist – D-dimer analysis of healthy adults receiving heterologous or homologous booster COVID-19 vaccine after a single prime dose of Ad26.COV2.S in a phase II randomised open-label trial, BaSiS	19
Physical activity in obesity management	16
Acute cellular rejection in adult liver transplant recipients in Johannesburg, South Africa	15
The usability of an electronic health record in a public healthcare facility in South Africa	14
Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data	14
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare	13
Medicine and the Law	13
Renoprotection in hypertension and diabetes – management problems lie ahead	13
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	12
Prostate cancer perspective: Africa versus the world	12
Healthcare Delivery	11
Facilitating remote access to specialist medical expertise through the scaled up adoption of a smartphone application: A South African case	11
The National Health Insurance Act: Possible private health funding reform scenarios	11
Pharmacotherapy for obesity management	11
Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 2)	10
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	10
Response to the letter by the National Department of Health regarding ‘Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa’	9
New developments with the Health Promotion Levy in South Africa	9
Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriage in school children from Cape Town: A cross- sectional study and systematic review	9
Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response	9
Intravenous antibiotic use in a private mining hospital in North West Province, South Africa	9
Evaluation of the national clinical sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: Analysis of provincial and district-level data	8
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	8
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	8

Prevention and harm reduction of obesity (clinical prevention)	8
Erratum	7
Where have we come from and where are we going? The paediatric HIV programme in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2004 to 2018: A retrospective analysis of programme trends	7
Predictors of mortality in acute hospitalised COVID-19 pneumonia patients: A retrospective cohort study at two tertiary-level hospitals in Zambia	7
The association between reproductive hormones and asthma-related outcomes in boys in the rural Western Cape Province, South Africa	7
Trisomy 21 screening with αlpha software and the Fetal Medicine Foundation algorithm	7
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	7
Comment on ‘Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis’	7
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	7
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	7
Optimising blood cultures: The interplay between diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship	7
Pregnant patients with severe headaches – don’t forget brain tumours!	6
Death trends for 2010 - 2022 for members of a large private medical scheme in South Africa	6
Thrombosis and bleeding outcomes with warfarin conversion to rivaroxaban during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The assessment of preventive measures in infants admitted with acute diarrhoeal disease to Pelonomi Tertiary Hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa	6
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	6
Leveraging epidemiology as a decision support tool during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa	5
South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination	5
Ensuring access to palliative care for cervical cancer patients	5
Population-level risk factors for vertical transmission of HIV in the national prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme in South Africa: An ecological analysis	5
Erratum	5
A short history of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Walter Sisulu University	5
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	5
An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement	5
Predictors of unfavourable tuberculosis treatment outcome in Bilene District, Gaza Province, Mozambique: A retrospective analysis, 2016 - 2019	5
Emerging technologies and virtual medicine in obesity management	5
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	5
The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis	5
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans.	4
Response to letter regarding ‘Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations’	4
The right to access healthcare: Progressive realisation or regressive denial?	4
Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	4
Recurrent venous thrombosis – an unusual first presentation of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 3B	4
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of undergraduate health sciences students on hepatitis B vaccination at a South African university highlight the need for improvement of policies, implementation and	4
Medicine and the Law	4
Neck dissection for advanced laryngeal cancer: Role and relevance in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	4
Medicine and the Law	4
Exploring a community’s understanding of HIV vaccine‑induced seropositivity in a South African research setting	4
Foreword: Preparedness and response to SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa	4
Perspectives of doctors, nurses and rehabilitation therapists in Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces’ public hospitals on remunerative work outside of the public service	4
District Health System performance in South Africa: Are current monitoring systems optimal?	4
The association between serum fructosamine and random spot urine fructose levels with the severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – an analytical cross-sectional study	4
Case Report	4
Maternal mental health and caregiver competence of HIV-positive and negative women caring for their singleton newborns in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	4
Retraction:	4
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and missed vaccine roll- out targets: The case for using general practitioners	4
Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a rural area in South Africa	4
Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa	4
Editorial Study: Contrasting epidemiological perspectives on environmental risk factors for breast cancer in Africa and Western regions	4
Early online	4

COVID-19 wave 4 in Western Cape Province, South Africa: Fewer hospitalisations, but new challenges for a depleted workforce	4
The Use of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in relatioN to patiEnt risk profilINg (TUNE IN) Wave 3 study	3
Association of tuberculosis active case finding with knowledge, attitudes, stigma and health-seeking behaviour among patients in Eswatini	3
Experience on postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling to ascertain the cause of death determination in South African children: A case for implementing as standard of care	3
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution (ambient PM2.5 and ambient ozone) in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa: A policy analysis of consensus reform proposals	3
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa	3
Correspondence and reply	3
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
Nocardia species epidemiology and susceptibility profiles from 2019 to 2022 in South Africa	3
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	3
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	3
A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	3
Evaluating the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an indicator for early referral of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia to a high-care facility	3
Primary care and primary healthcare in obesity management	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	3
Guiding equitable prioritisation of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and strategic deployment in South Africa to enhance effectiveness and access to vulnerable communities and prevent waste	3
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	3
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	3
Right of reply	3
Monkeypox in South Africa: The need for responsible messaging to avoid stigmatising the LGBTI community	3
The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review	3
Designing a universal electronic health record system: Creating a reliable national health database for AI and its application in healthcare in South Africa	3
The impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	3
Mandrax use, sexual risk, and opportunities for pre-exposure prophylaxis among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Evaluation of the accuracy of the Asanté assay as a point-of-care rapid test for HIV-1 recent infections using serum bank specimens from blood donors in South Africa, July 2018 - August 2021	3
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	2
Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
Acute kidney injury after major non-cardiac surgery: Incidence and risk factors	2
Patterns of disease on admission to children’s wards and changes during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
Specimen rejection in a high-throughput TB laboratory: A descriptive study	2
POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe	2
A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals	2
Commercial products and programmes in obesity management	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	2
‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	2
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Persistent maternal tachycardia: A clinical alert for healthcare professionals providing maternity care in South Africa	2
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	2
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	2
Metabolic and bariatric surgery: Postoperative management	2
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2
Distribution and demographics of critical care subspecialists for adult patients in South Africa	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	2
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	2
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, South Africa	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	2
Improving access to suicide prevention services through the National Suicide Prevention Framework implementation: The community level evidence-based recommendations	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
Prevalence of secondary health conditions and mental status in persons with long-term spinal cord injury in South Africa: Comparison between public and private healthcare sectors	2
Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	2
The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update	2
Transforming obesity care: Evidence-based guideline for South Africa	2
Issues in Medicine	2
A 5-year retrospective study to determine the spectrum of crescentic glomerulonephritis in three tertiary hospitals in Gauteng Province, South Africa	2
Clinical practice	2
The pattern of antibiotic utilisation among intensive care unit patients hospitalised in a Gauteng (South African) provincial tertiary hospital: Comparing findings before and during COVID-19	2
Telehealth opportunities for South Africa have been brought into focus by the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The mysterious joint: Septic arthritis and acute osteomyelitis due to Fusarium species in a child with type II Chiari malformation	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Case report: First reported case of spondylodiscitis caused by Gemella morbillorum in South Africa	2
Ivermectin drug induced liver injury	2
The role of AI in transforming healthcare in South Africa	2
Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent	2
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding in a young man recovering from traumatic pneumothorax	2
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	2
Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?	2

Community-based education: A strategy for training community-responsive health professionals	2
Achieving community-oriented primary healthcare through collaborative learning: The KwaZulu-Natal Primary Health Care Transformation Committee	2
The role of mental health in obesity management	2
Optimising insulin use in people living with type 2 diabetes at primary healthcare facilities: The Tshwane Insulin Project	1
Undiagnosed comorbidities among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19 in South African public hospitals	1
An outbreak within an outbreak: The impact of Infection Prevention and Control strategies on hospital-acquired infections and the occurrence of multi-drug resistant organisms during the COVID-19 pande	1
Guest editorial:	1
Case Report	1
Diagnosis and presenting features of autoimmune hepatitis at a central referral hospital in South Africa	1
Characteristics, clinical manifestations and management of leprosy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A 20-year retrospective study	1
Ivermectin exposures reported to the Poisons Information Helpline in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Pharmacist-led medication therapy management of diabetes club patients at a primary healthcare clinic in Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective and prospective audit	1
Safeguarding healthcare in conflict: SAMA’s suspension of relations with the Israeli Medical Association	1
The importance of including manner of (injury) death on the death notification form	1
Implementing E-MOTIVE for detection and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage in South Africa	1
Hypertriglyceridaemia in adolescents may have serious complications	1
When conflicting interests challenge relevance: History of the development of Public Health at Walter Sisulu University	1
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Perinatal outcome of maternal deaths at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2014 - June 2019	1
A tale of two kidneys, and the case for machine perfusion in South Africa	1
Bleeding and thrombosis outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients on low-molecular-weight heparin and antiplatelet therapy	1
Pandemic politics	1
First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa	1
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risk in the School Environment: a pilot case-ascertained prospective study to inform future school-based surveillance.	1
Training, guideline access and knowledge of antiretroviral interactions: Is the South African private sector being left behind?	1
AI in medicine: Hype, hope, and the path forward	1
Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations	1
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the use of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs	1
Venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis in hospitalised medical patients in the Cape Town metropole, South Africa	1
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	1
Non-fatal injuries among boys and girls presenting to Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town	1
Erratum	1
Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion: A South African experience	1
Ritshidze’s community-led monitoring system as a source of information on health system responsiveness in South Africa	1
Robotic-assisted primary malignant bone tumour resection: A necessity for orthopaedic tumour surgeons in the developing world	1
The role of new hepatitis B vaccines in South Africa	1
Renal transplant recipient and deceased-donor risk profiles at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa: A 9-year review	1
Role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in cancers	1
Pandemic escape plan: Discontinuing policies that have reached their expiry date	1
The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of diabetic foot ulcers in the South African public healthcare sector	1
Surgical training and capacity development in the South African internship programme	1
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	1
Can inflammatory bowel disease be treated with diet?	1
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	1
Prevalence of <i>Plasmodium </i>species in asymptomatic individuals in North-Eastern South Africa: 2018 - 2019	1
More than medicine: The Department of Family Medicine’s journey to embed care and learning in the heart of the community	1
Long-stay medical-surgical intensive care unit patients in South Africa: Quality of life and mortality 1 year after discharge	1
Cerebral palsy and its medicolegal implications in low- resource settings – the need to establish causality and revise criteria to implicate intrapartum hypoxia: A narrative review	1
Response to ‘An open letter: In solidarity with all children suffering in wars; to all who hold or share a concern for the wellbeing of children’	1
The paediatric liver transplant experience in Johannesburg, South Africa: A broad overview and update	1
The clinical utility of tissue polymerase chain reaction, tissue culture and tissue histology in blood culture-negative infective endocarditis in South Africa – insights from the Groote Schuur Hospita	1
Resilience in the time of crisis: A review of the maternal, perinatal and reproductive health effects of COVID-19 in South Africa	1
The South African Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines	1
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Improving health outcomes and quality at the subdistrict level: Evaluation of the ‘3 feet model’ in Waterberg District, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Lower respiratory tract infection admissions and deaths among children under 5 years in public sector facilities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (20	1
Have we forgotten about HIV?	1
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetables in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Introduction to the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines	1
A descriptive study of the spectrum of dermatological surgery services provided by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Department of Dermatology at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital	1
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Liberalising cannabis legislation in South Africa: Potential public health consequences for adolescents and pregnant women	1
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among healthcare workers in the Ekurhuleni District, South Africa	1
Clinical course, management and outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV-infected renal transplant recipients: A case series	1
A national retrospective descriptive analysis of critical care transfers in the private sector in South Africa	1
Introducing the South African Rare Diseases Access Initiative	1
In defence of South Africa’s National Health Research Ethics Council guidelines on heritable human genome editing	1
Placental histopathology, maternal characteristics and neonatal outcome in cases of preterm birth in a high-risk population in South Africa	1
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans	1
Determination of anti-COVID-19 IgG and IgM seroprevalence among pregnant women at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Enabling participation in activities of daily living for people living with obesity	1
Heart groups in South Africa advocate for tighter LDL-C control and lipoprotein(a) testing to curb atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	1
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	1
Change in profile of COVID-19 deaths in Western Cape Province, South Africa, during the fourth wave	1
Health literacy on diabetes mellitus among a working population of Mthatha, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	1
The impact of COVID-19 on patients affected by rare diseases and congenital disorders in South Africa: A scoping review	1
COVID-19 in the South African Medical Journal	1
Public health sector capacity and resilience building in Zimbabwe: An urgent priority as further waves of COVID-19 are imminent	1
Call for the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority to revisit regulations relating to single- use medical devices	1
The Second Comparative Risk Assessment for South Africa: A call to action for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention	1
The implementation of community-oriented primary care in the Cape Metro Health District: A programme evaluation	1
Diabetes in the public healthcare sector of four South African provinces: A comparative analysis	1
Effective cannabis testing protocols for workplace safety in South Africa post legalisation: Navigating the new normal	1
Leveraging routine data in impact evaluation: Understanding data systems in primary healthcare prior to a matched cluster-randomised evaluation of adherence guidelines in South Africa	1
Medical doctors employed in the South African state sector – unshielded on the frontline?	1
Medicine and the Law	1
When secrecy and expert advice collide in a pandemic: Access to information and the National Department of Health’s tardy publication of Ministerial Advisory Committee advisories	1
A critical analysis of adult platelet product utilisation in South Africa, 2014 - 2021	1
Spinal mobilisation and manipulation for paediatric populations	0
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of peripheral spondyloarthritis	0
The District Health System must become a learning health system	0
Not so simple: Implementing a sputum jar to enhance TB diagnostic yield	0
Private healthcare sector spine surgery: patient and surgeon profiles from a large open medical scheme in South Africa	0
Loadshedding and Healthcare: Salt in The Wound?	0
Vision and future of South Africa’s oldest rural medical school as it navigates towards its first century	0