SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Bridging the gap in rural and underserved areas through AI‐enabled solutions	24
Physical activity in obesity management	18
The usability of an electronic health record in a public healthcare facility in South Africa	18
Acute cellular rejection in adult liver transplant recipients in Johannesburg, South Africa	15
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
Medicine and the Law	13
Healthcare Delivery	13
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	13
Prostate cancer perspective: Africa versus the world	12
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	12
Pharmacotherapy for obesity management	11
Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriage in school children from Cape Town: A cross- sectional study and systematic review	11
Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response	11
New developments with the Health Promotion Levy in South Africa	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
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	10
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	10
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	10
Response to the letter by the National Department of Health regarding ‘Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa’	10
Prevention and harm reduction of obesity (clinical prevention)	10
E-cigarette, cannabis, hookah and tobacco use patterns in fee-paying South African high schools	9
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
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8

Comment on ‘Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis’	8
A short history of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Walter Sisulu University	8
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	8
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
Pregnant patients with severe headaches – don’t forget brain tumours!	7
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
Clinicians and artificial intelligence	6
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	6
Profile of deliberate self-poisoning admissions in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (2018 - 2023) and the impact of COVID-19	6
Prevalence and severity of anaemia in persons with haemophilia and von Willebrand disease at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa	6
Emerging technologies and virtual medicine in obesity management	6
Persistent hypertension, albuminuria and low glomerular filtration rate in schoolchildren in Kano metropolis, Nigeria	6
Erratum	6
Trisomy 21 screening with αlpha software and the Fetal Medicine Foundation algorithm	6
Primary cutaneous malignancies in black African patients with oculocutaneous albinism in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	6
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	6
South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination	6
Ensuring access to palliative care for cervical cancer patients	5
Tackling clinical trials disparities in Africa	5
The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis	5
Neck dissection for advanced laryngeal cancer: Role and relevance in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	5
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	5
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans.	5
An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement	5
Right of reply	4
Case fatality in severe acute malnutrition: Determinants and modifiable factors in hospitalised children in Vhembe district, South Africa	4
Case Report	4
Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a rural area in South Africa	4
Retraction:	4
Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa	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
Editorial Study: Contrasting epidemiological perspectives on environmental risk factors for breast cancer in Africa and Western regions	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
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
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
Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	4
Exploring a community’s understanding of HIV vaccine‑induced seropositivity in a South African research setting	4
Response to letter regarding ‘Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations’	4
Medicine and the Law	4
The right to access healthcare: Progressive realisation or regressive denial?	4
District Health System performance in South Africa: Are current monitoring systems optimal?	4
Recurrent venous thrombosis – an unusual first presentation of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 3B	4
Early online	4
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
Monkeypox in South Africa: The need for responsible messaging to avoid stigmatising the LGBTI community	3
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3

HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Nocardia species epidemiology and susceptibility profiles from 2019 to 2022 in South Africa	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
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	3
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	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
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
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	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
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
Primary care and primary healthcare in obesity management	3
Correspondence and reply	3
A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	3
The duration of phentermine therapy in the private healthcare sector of South Africa: A retrospective analysis	3
The Use of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in relatioN to patiEnt risk profilINg (TUNE IN) Wave 3 study	3
Beyond valve replacement: Rethinking prosthetic heart valve care	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
Routine blood monitoring in acne vulgaris patients on isotretinoin: Is reassessment warranted? A retrospective cohort study from Tygerberg Hospital	2
Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?	2
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	2
Metabolic and bariatric surgery: Postoperative management	2
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	2
Clinical practice	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2
Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent	2
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	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
Improving access to suicide prevention services through the National Suicide Prevention Framework implementation: The community level evidence-based recommendations	2
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	2
The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update	2
The role of mental health in obesity management	2
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	2
Transforming obesity care: Evidence-based guideline for South Africa	2
Enhancing cervical cancer screening coverage in selected primary healthcare sites using Lean thinking: The CerviScreen programme	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
A 5-year retrospective study to determine the spectrum of crescentic glomerulonephritis in three tertiary hospitals in Gauteng Province, South Africa	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa: A policy analysis of consensus reform proposals	2
Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	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
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	2
Opportunities for health system strengthening to reduce preventable trauma deaths in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: Findings from an expert panel review	2
Specimen rejection in a high-throughput TB laboratory: A descriptive study	2
‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	2
Persistent maternal tachycardia: A clinical alert for healthcare professionals providing maternity care in South Africa	2
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2
Acute kidney injury after major non-cardiac surgery: Incidence and risk factors	2
Supporting doctors’ mental health: Exploring the utility of a life skills programme for interns in rural Eastern Cape Province, 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
Community-based education: A strategy for training community-responsive health professionals	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	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 role of AI in transforming healthcare in South Africa	2
The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review	2
The state of caesarean sections in South Africa: Challenges, unknowns and the way forward	2
Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
Narrowing the care and treatment gap through a human resources for mental health plan: Key considerations	2
Commercial products and programmes in obesity management	2
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	2
A  new perspective to aid in MMed research report completion: The effort-time trajectory model	2
A turn for the worse: The impact of deteriorating healthcare spending in South Africa	2
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, South Africa	2
Medicine and the Law	1

The South African Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines	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 Second Comparative Risk Assessment for South Africa: A call to action for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention	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
Clinical course, management and outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV-infected renal transplant recipients: A case series	1
Implementing E-MOTIVE for detection and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage in South Africa	1
Resilience in the time of crisis: A review of the maternal, perinatal and reproductive health effects of COVID-19 in South Africa	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
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	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 association between depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and meningiomas: Emerging data and their relevance to the South African context	1
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the use of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs	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
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
Can inflammatory bowel disease be treated with diet?	1
Erratum	1
When conflicting interests challenge relevance: History of the development of Public Health at Walter Sisulu University	1
The importance of including manner of (injury) death on the death notification form	1
Have we forgotten about HIV?	1
Issues in Medicine	1
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Medical doctors employed in the South African state sector – unshielded on the frontline?	1
Effective cannabis testing protocols for workplace safety in South Africa post legalisation: Navigating the new normal	1
Robotic-assisted primary malignant bone tumour resection: A necessity for orthopaedic tumour surgeons in the developing world	1
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetables in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Bleeding and thrombosis outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients on low-molecular-weight heparin and antiplatelet therapy	1
Diabetes in the public healthcare sector of four South African provinces: A comparative analysis	1
First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa	1
Introducing the South African Rare Diseases Access Initiative	1
Diagnosis and presenting features of autoimmune hepatitis at a central referral hospital in South Africa	1
Ritshidze’s community-led monitoring system as a source of information on health system responsiveness in South Africa	1
Erratum	1
Ivermectin exposures reported to the Poisons Information Helpline in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Engagement in antenatal and HIV care among pregnant women before and after Option B+ policy implementation in South Africa	1
Role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in cancers	1
Shock index in a rural setting: Can it predict mortality? A retrospective audit in two central hospitals in Limpopo Province, South Africa	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
Surgical training and capacity development in the South African internship programme	1
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Renal transplant recipient and deceased-donor risk profiles at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa: A 9-year review	1
Incidence and histological outcomes of appendectomies in a South African regional hospital, 2022 - 2023: A retrospective study	1
The implementation of community-oriented primary care in the Cape Metro Health District: A programme evaluation	1
The mysterious joint: Septic arthritis and acute osteomyelitis due to Fusarium species in a child with type II Chiari malformation	1
Liberalising cannabis legislation in South Africa: Potential public health consequences for adolescents and pregnant women	1
Distribution and demographics of critical care subspecialists for adult patients in South Africa	1
Placental histopathology, maternal characteristics and neonatal outcome in cases of preterm birth in a high-risk population in South Africa	1
The role of new hepatitis B vaccines in South Africa	1
More than medicine: The Department of Family Medicine’s journey to embed care and learning in the heart of the community	1
Heart groups in South Africa advocate for tighter LDL-C control and lipoprotein(a) testing to curb atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	1
A national retrospective descriptive analysis of critical care transfers in the private sector in South Africa	1
When will South Africa take the prevention of chronic HBV infection seriously?	1
Prevalence of <i>Plasmodium </i>species in asymptomatic individuals in North-Eastern South Africa: 2018 - 2019	1
Enabling participation in activities of daily living for people living with obesity	1
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	1
Opportunities to expand delivery of prehospital tranexamic acid to bleeding trauma patients – findings from a prospective multicentre trauma study in the Western Cape Province, South Africa	1
Improving health outcomes and quality at the subdistrict level: Evaluation of the ‘3 feet model’ in Waterberg District, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	1
AI in medicine: Hype, hope, and the path forward	1
Safeguarding healthcare in conflict: SAMA’s suspension of relations with the Israeli Medical Association	1
Perinatal outcome of maternal deaths at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2014 - June 2019	1
The 6th UCT Bongani Mayosi Memorial Lecture: Fostering evidence-based humanity in the academy and beyond: Lessons from the legacy of Prof. Bongani Mayosi	1
Undiagnosed comorbidities among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19 in South African public hospitals	1
Training, guideline access and knowledge of antiretroviral interactions: Is the South African private sector being left behind?	1
The rise of invalidation in medicine	1
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among healthcare workers in the Ekurhuleni District, South Africa	1
In defence of South Africa’s National Health Research Ethics Council guidelines on heritable human genome editing	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
Case Report	1
A cross-sectional study of patients with prosthetic mitral valves at a tertiary centre in Johannesburg, South Africa	1
Introduction to the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines	1
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans	1
Non-fatal injuries among boys and girls presenting to Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town	1
Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations	1
National Health Insurance in South Africa: A critical perspective on policy misalignment and constitutional constraints	1
Guest editorial:	1
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	1
Determination of anti-COVID-19 IgG and IgM seroprevalence among pregnant women at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Characteristics, clinical manifestations and management of leprosy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A 20-year retrospective study	1
Health literacy on diabetes mellitus among a working population of Mthatha, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	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
Ivermectin drug induced liver injury	1
Factors associated with COVID-19 inpatient mortality cases within 24-hours South Africa	1
The final referral: A 1-year retrospective review of death referrals through the lens of forensics	1
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	1
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risk in the School Environment: a pilot case-ascertained prospective study to inform future school-based surveillance.	1
A critical analysis of adult platelet product utilisation in South Africa, 2014 - 2021	1
The paediatric liver transplant experience in Johannesburg, South Africa: A broad overview and update	1
Epidemiology of adult obesity	0
Adult pure red cell aplasia at Universitas Academic Hospital, Bloemfontein, South Africa: A 9-year review	0
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of peripheral spondyloarthritis	0
Private healthcare sector spine surgery: patient and surgeon profiles from a large open medical scheme in South Africa	0
Spinal mobilisation and manipulation for paediatric populations	0
Vision and future of South Africa’s oldest rural medical school as it navigates towards its first century	0
Cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation in South Africa: One-year outcome from the Cryo Global Registry	0