SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Bridging the gap in rural and underserved areas through AI‐enabled solutions	23
Physical activity in obesity management	18
The usability of an electronic health record in a public healthcare facility in South Africa	16
Acute cellular rejection in adult liver transplant recipients in Johannesburg, South Africa	16
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	14
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	13
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare	13
Medicine and the Law	13
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	12
Pharmacotherapy for obesity management	12
New developments with the Health Promotion Levy in South Africa	11
Prostate cancer perspective: Africa versus the world	11
Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response	11
The National Health Insurance Act: Possible private health funding reform scenarios	11
Intravenous antibiotic use in a private mining hospital in North West Province, South Africa	11
Healthcare Delivery	11
Prevention and harm reduction of obesity (clinical prevention)	10
Response to the letter by the National Department of Health regarding ‘Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa’	10
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	10
Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriage in school children from Cape Town: A cross- sectional study and systematic review	10
The association between reproductive hormones and asthma-related outcomes in boys in the rural Western Cape 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	9
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	9
E-cigarette, cannabis, hookah and tobacco use patterns in fee-paying South African high schools	9

Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	9
A short history of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Walter Sisulu University	8
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	8
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
Pregnant patients with severe headaches – don’t forget brain tumours!	7
The assessment of preventive measures in infants admitted with acute diarrhoeal disease to Pelonomi Tertiary Hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa	7
Optimising blood cultures: The interplay between diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship	7
Comment on ‘Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis’	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
Death trends for 2010 - 2022 for members of a large private medical scheme in South Africa	7
Emerging technologies and virtual medicine in obesity management	6
Primary cutaneous malignancies in black African patients with oculocutaneous albinism in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	6
Profile of deliberate self-poisoning admissions in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (2018 - 2023) and the impact of COVID-19	6
Clinicians and artificial intelligence	6
Thrombosis and bleeding outcomes with warfarin conversion to rivaroxaban during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Prevalence and severity of anaemia in persons with haemophilia and von Willebrand disease at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa	6
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	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	6
Trisomy 21 screening with αlpha software and the Fetal Medicine Foundation algorithm	6
Persistent hypertension, albuminuria and low glomerular filtration rate in schoolchildren in Kano metropolis, Nigeria	6
Erratum	6
Response to letter regarding ‘Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations’	5
An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement	5
Tackling clinical trials disparities in Africa	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
South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination	5
Ensuring access to palliative care for cervical cancer patients	5
Neck dissection for advanced laryngeal cancer: Role and relevance in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	5
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans.	5
Maternal mental health and caregiver competence of HIV-positive and negative women caring for their singleton newborns in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	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
Foreword: Preparedness and response to SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa	4
Exploring a community’s understanding of HIV vaccine‑induced seropositivity in a South African research setting	4
Mandrax use, sexual risk, and opportunities for pre-exposure prophylaxis among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa	4
Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	4
Perspectives of doctors, nurses and rehabilitation therapists in Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces’ public hospitals on remunerative work outside of the public service	4
Medicine and the Law	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
District Health System performance in South Africa: Are current monitoring systems optimal?	4
Retraction:	4
Medicine and the Law	4
Early online	4
Case fatality in severe acute malnutrition: Determinants and modifiable factors in hospitalised children in Vhembe district, South Africa	4
Case Report	4
The right to access healthcare: Progressive realisation or regressive denial?	4
Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a rural area in South Africa	4
Recurrent venous thrombosis – an unusual first presentation of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 3B	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
The duration of phentermine therapy in the private healthcare sector of South Africa: A retrospective analysis	3
Primary care and primary healthcare in obesity management	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
The Use of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in relatioN to patiEnt risk profilINg (TUNE IN) Wave 3 study	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
Association of tuberculosis active case finding with knowledge, attitudes, stigma and health-seeking behaviour among patients in Eswatini	3
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
The impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	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
Correspondence and reply	3
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
Beyond valve replacement: Rethinking prosthetic heart valve care	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	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
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa	3
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	3
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Nocardia species epidemiology and susceptibility profiles from 2019 to 2022 in South Africa	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
Right of reply	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
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	3
Monkeypox in South Africa: The need for responsible messaging to avoid stigmatising the LGBTI community	3
Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?	2
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	2
The role of AI in transforming healthcare in South Africa	2
Clinical practice	2
Designing a universal electronic health record system: Creating a reliable national health database for AI and its application in healthcare in South Africa	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	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
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, South Africa	2
Ivermectin drug induced liver injury	2
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	2
Health literacy on diabetes mellitus among a working population of Mthatha, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
The state of caesarean sections in South Africa: Challenges, unknowns and the way forward	2
A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals	2
Supporting doctors’ mental health: Exploring the utility of a life skills programme for interns in rural Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
Improving access to suicide prevention services through the National Suicide Prevention Framework implementation: The community level evidence-based recommendations	2
Community-based education: A strategy for training community-responsive health professionals	2
The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update	2
A 5-year retrospective study to determine the spectrum of crescentic glomerulonephritis in three tertiary hospitals in Gauteng Province, South Africa	2
The role of mental health in obesity management	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Metabolic and bariatric surgery: Postoperative management	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	2
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	2
More than medicine: The Department of Family Medicine’s journey to embed care and learning in the heart of the community	2
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2
Distribution and demographics of critical care subspecialists for adult patients in South Africa	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2
Commercial products and programmes in obesity management	2
Specimen rejection in a high-throughput TB laboratory: A descriptive study	2
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	2
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	2
Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa: A policy analysis of consensus reform proposals	2
Persistent maternal tachycardia: A clinical alert for healthcare professionals providing maternity care in South Africa	2
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	2
Why data is the most cost-effective investment for health technology assessment in South Africa	2
Achieving community-oriented primary healthcare through collaborative learning: The KwaZulu-Natal Primary Health Care Transformation Committee	2
The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review	2
Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	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
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Issues in Medicine	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	2
When conflicting interests challenge relevance: History of the development of Public Health at Walter Sisulu University	2

Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	2
The mysterious joint: Septic arthritis and acute osteomyelitis due to Fusarium species in a child with type II Chiari malformation	2
Acute kidney injury after major non-cardiac surgery: Incidence and risk factors	2
Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent	2
Case report: First reported case of spondylodiscitis caused by Gemella morbillorum in South Africa	2
POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe	2
Enhancing cervical cancer screening coverage in selected primary healthcare sites using Lean thinking: The CerviScreen programme	2
Transforming obesity care: Evidence-based guideline for South Africa	2
The final referral: A 1-year retrospective review of death referrals through the lens of forensics	1
Non-fatal injuries among boys and girls presenting to Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town	1
Ritshidze’s community-led monitoring system as a source of information on health system responsiveness in South Africa	1
Undiagnosed comorbidities among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19 in South African public hospitals	1
Guest editorial:	1
Renal transplant recipient and deceased-donor risk profiles at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa: A 9-year review	1
Diagnosis and presenting features of autoimmune hepatitis at a central referral hospital in South Africa	1
Erratum	1
Training, guideline access and knowledge of antiretroviral interactions: Is the South African private sector being left behind?	1
Placental histopathology, maternal characteristics and neonatal outcome in cases of preterm birth in a high-risk population 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
Ivermectin exposures reported to the Poisons Information Helpline in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The role of new hepatitis B vaccines in South Africa	1
First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa	1
Heart groups in South Africa advocate for tighter LDL-C control and lipoprotein(a) testing to curb atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	1
When will South Africa take the prevention of chronic HBV infection seriously?	1
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	1
A tale of two kidneys, and the case for machine perfusion in South Africa	1
The paediatric liver transplant experience in Johannesburg, South Africa: A broad overview and update	1
The rights of graduate medical practitioners and reforming community service non-placements	1
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among healthcare workers in the Ekurhuleni District, South Africa	1
The South African Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines	1
Surgical training and capacity development in the South African internship programme	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
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
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
Resilience in the time of crisis: A review of the maternal, perinatal and reproductive health effects of COVID-19 in South Africa	1
COVID-19 in the South African Medical Journal	1
Introduction to the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines	1
Introducing the South African Rare Diseases Access Initiative	1
Optimising insulin use in people living with type 2 diabetes at primary healthcare facilities: The Tshwane Insulin Project	1
The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of diabetic foot ulcers in the South African public healthcare sector	1
Shock index in a rural setting: Can it predict mortality? A retrospective audit in two central hospitals in Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the use of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs	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
Incidence and histological outcomes of appendectomies in a South African regional hospital, 2022 - 2023: A retrospective study	1
Characteristics, clinical manifestations and management of leprosy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A 20-year retrospective study	1
Diabetes in the public healthcare sector of four South African provinces: A comparative analysis	1
Determination of anti-COVID-19 IgG and IgM seroprevalence among pregnant women at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Can inflammatory bowel disease be treated with diet?	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
Role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in cancers	1
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetables in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
A cross-sectional study of patients with prosthetic mitral valves at a tertiary centre in Johannesburg, South Africa	1
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	1
Prevalence of <i>Plasmodium </i>species in asymptomatic individuals in North-Eastern South Africa: 2018 - 2019	1
Bleeding and thrombosis outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients on low-molecular-weight heparin and antiplatelet therapy	1
A kidney exchange programme for South Africa – the time is right	1
Safeguarding healthcare in conflict: SAMA’s suspension of relations with the Israeli Medical Association	1
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Medical doctors employed in the South African state sector – unshielded on the frontline?	1
Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations	1
Factors associated with COVID-19 inpatient mortality cases within 24-hours South Africa	1
AI in medicine: Hype, hope, and the path forward	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
The implementation of community-oriented primary care in the Cape Metro Health District: A programme evaluation	1
Medicine and the Law	1
Have we forgotten about HIV?	1
Erratum	1
Implementing E-MOTIVE for detection and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage in South Africa	1
Liberalising cannabis legislation in South Africa: Potential public health consequences for adolescents and pregnant women	1
Case Report	1
The association between depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and meningiomas: Emerging data and their relevance to the South African context	1
A national retrospective descriptive analysis of critical care transfers in the private sector in South Africa	1
Robotic-assisted primary malignant bone tumour resection: A necessity for orthopaedic tumour surgeons in the developing world	1
National Health Insurance in South Africa: A critical perspective on policy misalignment and constitutional constraints	1
The Second Comparative Risk Assessment for South Africa: A call to action for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention	1
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
The importance of including manner of (injury) death on the death notification form	1
Clinical course, management and outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV-infected renal transplant recipients: A case series	1
A critical analysis of adult platelet product utilisation in South Africa, 2014 - 2021	1
The rise of invalidation in medicine	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
Perinatal outcome of maternal deaths at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2014 - June 2019	1
Origins of South Africa’s eight and oldest rural medical school: Pioneering a new approach to medical education	1
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	1
Where is the South African prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder programme? A call to action	1
Improving health outcomes and quality at the subdistrict level: Evaluation of the ‘3 feet model’ in Waterberg District, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Hypertriglyceridaemia in adolescents may have serious complications	1
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans	1
Effective cannabis testing protocols for workplace safety in South Africa post legalisation: Navigating the new normal	1
In defence of South Africa’s National Health Research Ethics Council guidelines on heritable human genome editing	1
Engagement in antenatal and HIV care among pregnant women before and after Option B+ policy implementation in South Africa	1
Enabling participation in activities of daily living for people living with obesity	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
The District Health System must become a learning health system	0