SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Asthma in South African children: Reflection on new recommendations for care	74
Medicine and the Law	27
The utility of mobile telephone-recorded videos as adjuncts to the diagnosis of seizures and paroxysmal events in children with suspected epileptic seizures	27
International normalised ratio control in a non-metropolitan setting in Western Cape Province, South Africa	27
Right of reply	14
A prospective observational study of preoperative natriuretic peptide testing in adult non-cardiac surgical patients in hospitals in Western Cape Province, South Africa	13
Thank you from SAMA and the editors	13
James Peter Byrne	11
Portal vein injury due to blunt abdominal trauma	10
Missed traumatic diaphragmatic hernia and literature review	10
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetables in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	10
Medicine and the Law	10
Jacques Cilliers	9
Diabetes in the public healthcare sector of four South African provinces: A comparative analysis	9
Melanoma crude incidence rates among White South Africans climbing as in other countries: urgent call for targeted skin cancer prevention and awareness campaigns	9
Increase in linezolid resistance in staphylococci in the private sector in Western Cape Province, South Africa	9
Iqbal Haroon Master	9
Impact of interventions for tuberculosis prevention and care in South Africa – a systematic review of mathematical modelling studies	9
CPD Questions	8
Prevalence of comorbid disease and associated risk factors among homeless people living in temporary shelters during the COVID-19 lockdown in Tshwane, South Africa	8
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
Michael Charles Kew	8
Medicine and the Law	8
CPD Questions	8
Southern African Student Surgical Society (SASSS) and University of Cape Town Division of Global Surgery Symposium: Developing a pipeline of surgical student researchers collaboratively	8

Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data	7
Shortfall in stroke care: A study of ischaemic stroke care practices in a South African metropole	7
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans	7
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	7
A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community	7
Are adults just big kids? Can the newer paediatric weight estimation systems be used in adults?	7
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high body mass index in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	7
Basil Michaelides	7
TOR1A mutation-related isolated childhood-onset generalised dystonia in South Africa	7
Two decades of recipient and donor referrals for heart transplantation to Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective study	7
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, South Africa	6
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	6
Blood culture contamination in the departments of paediatrics and child health at two tertiary training hospitals in central South Africa	6
Venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis in hospitalised medical patients in the Cape Town metropole, South Africa	6
Sentinel seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Gauteng Province, South Africa, August - October 2020	6
The state of kidney replacement therapy in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: A call to action	6
Practice update to optimise the performance and interpretation of blood cultures: 2022	6
A doctor at a PHC clinic: A ‘must-have’ or ‘nice-to-have’?	6
Policy brief: Optimising antimicrobial usage in paediatric inpatient hospital settings	6
Antivirals for the treatment of mild and moderate COVID-19 in South Africa	6
A new forum to discuss health economics and genomics in South Africa	6
Dolutegravir drug-drug interactions	6
The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic on mortality in South Africa in 2020	5
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	5
Dyslipidaemia in patients with chronic kidney disease – a neglected cardiovascular risk factor	5
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among healthcare workers in the Ekurhuleni District, South Africa	5
Effect of COVID-19 on HIV, tuberculosis, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV indicators in Mopani district, South Africa	5
Recognition of infants at high risk for vertical HIV transmission at delivery in rural Western Cape Province, South Africa	5
Prevalence and correlates of 30-day suicidal ideation and intent: Results of the South African National Student Mental Health Survey	5
Using ceftazidime-avibactam for persistent carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens infection highlights antimicrobial stewardship challenges with new beta-lactam-inhibitor combination antibiotics	5
Antimicrobial stewardship in the Western Cape: A situational analysis of existing facility-level initiatives	5
Investigating blood alcohol concentrations in injury-related deaths before and during the COVID-19 National lockdown in Western Cape, South Africa: A cross-sectional retrospective review	5
Improving health outcomes and quality at the subdistrict level: Evaluation of the ‘3 feet model’ in Waterberg District, Limpopo Province, South Africa	5
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	5
One-year mortality after hospital admission as an indicator of palliative care need: A retrospective cohort study	5
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	5
Delirium in HIV-infected patients admitted to acute medical wards post universal access to antiretrovirals in South Africa	5
Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa guidelines for the training and credentialing in emergency point-of-care ultrasound	4
The readability of informed consent forms for research studies conducted in South Africa	4
One in four die from acute infectious illness in an emergency department in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	4
Factors influencing in-hospital mortality for salvage percutaneous transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting in cirrhotic patients with recalcitrant variceal bleeding after failed endoscopic in	4
A natural history of efavirenz drug-induced liver injury	4
Urology care in South Africa: A call for collaboration	4
The next generation: Pregnancy in adolescents and women living with perinatally acquired HIV in South Africa	4
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution (ambient PM2.5 and ambient ozone) in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	4
Unnatural deaths, alcohol bans and curfews: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment during COVID-19	4
Undiagnosed comorbidities among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19 in South African public hospitals	4
Causative pathogens and antibiotic resistance in community-acquired urinary tract infections in central South Africa	4
Assessing South African medical interns’ experience and confidence in managing obstetric emergencies	4
The cost of harmful alcohol use in South Africa: A commentary	4

Assisted suicide: Ethical considerations and the South African debate	4
Obstructive jaundice: Studies on predictors of biliary infection and microbiological analysis in an HIV setting	4
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	4
The synergistic health syndemic of HIV and cancer of the cervix in women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: Decrying the dearth of information	4
Cerebral Palsy and Criteria Implicating Acute Intrapartum Hypoxia in Neonatal Encephalopathy – An Obstetric Perspective for the South African Setting	4
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in patients with bacteraemia at tertiary academic hospitals in South Africa, 2019 - 2020: An update	4
Secondary health conditions in people with spinal cord injury in South Africa: Prevalence and associated factors	4
Economic growth as an underlying probable systemic driver for childhood obesity in South Africa: A Joinpoint regression and ecological analysis over 10 years	4
Treatment outcomes among patients admitted to hospital with antiretroviral and/or antituberculosis drug-induced liver injury	4
Resilience in the time of crisis: A review of the maternal, perinatal and reproductive health effects of COVID-19 in South Africa	4
Informal gold miners with mercury toxicity: Novel asymmetrical neurological presentations	4
Preventable deaths among youth in South Africa: Measuring life expectancy in the absence of non-communicable diseases and its implications for the healthcare system	4
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	4
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: A complex social phenomenon	4
Mortality trends during the first three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic at an urban district hospital in South Africa: A retrospective comparative analysis	4
SARS-CoV-2 mutations on diagnostic gene targets in the second wave in Zimbabwe: A retrospective genomic analysis	3
Contents	3
Micropapillary carcinoma of the breast: A case review at Mankweng Hospital breast oncology clinic in Limpopo Province, South Africa	3
What did we learn from South Africa’s first-ever tuberculosis prevalence survey?	3
Patterns of oxygen saturation in prolonged recovery from COVID-19 pneumonia	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	3
The prevalence of pulmonary embolism in non-hospitalised de-isolated patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 disease	3
The characteristics of dermatology inpatients seen at the quaternary Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in Durban, South Africa, over a 5-year period – 2015 - 2020	3
Reforming healthcare training: Ending the compulsory community service policy	3
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa	3
Surgical training in the private sector in South Africa	3
Case Report	3
Integrated, people-centred eye care: Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services	3
Contents	3
Low mortality of people living with diabetes mellitus diagnosed with COVID-19 and managed at a field hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
COVID-19 vaccination: Recommendations for management of patients with allergy or immune-based diseases	3
Surgical challenges in Limpopo	3
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	3
CPD Questions	3
Ephraim Sheftel Benjamin	3
Ivermectin exposures reported to the Poisons Information Helpline in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Autologous whole blood clot and negative-pressure wound therapy in South Africa: A comparison of the cost and social considerations	3
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
Hunger as a driver of depressive symptoms: Optimising responses to mental health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Establishing a South African national framework for COVID-19 surgical prioritisation	3
Training, guideline access and knowledge of antiretroviral interactions: Is the South African private sector being left behind?	3
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on low birthweight in Soweto, South Africa	3
Nephrolithiasis (parts 1 and 2)	3
A paediatric pain assessment and management survey at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	3
CPD Questions	3
Evaluation of the impact of PEPFAR transition on retention in care in South Africa’s Western Cape Province	3
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: An update for the COVID-19 era	3
Contents	3
The increased need for lifestyle interventions in dealing with non-communicable diseases in South Africa	3
Barriers affecting COVID‑19 vaccination in Phalombe District, Malawi: A qualitative study	3
Low 30-day mortality in South African orthopaedic patients undergoing surgery at an academic hospital during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: It was safe to perform orthopaedic procedures at o	3
The impact of a mobile COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction laboratory at a large tertiary hospital during the first wave of the pandemic: A retrospective analysis	3
Antibiogram profiles and efficacy of antibiotic regimens of bacterial isolates from chronic osteomyelitis of the appendicular skeleton: A developing-world perspective	3
Medicine and the Law	3
Acute obstructive hydrocephalus in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome	2
Renal transplant recipient and deceased-donor risk profiles at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa: A 9-year review	2
Prostate cancer perspective: Africa versus the world	2
Discovering hypertriglyceridaemia	2
The burden and outcomes of firearm injuries at two district-level emergency centres in Cape Town, South Africa: A descriptive analysis	2
Non-vaccine serotype pneumococcal carriage in healthy infants in South Africa following introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine	2
http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13517	2
A total cost perspective of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in two South African medical schemes servicing the public healthcare sector	2
Challenges of implementing an integrated electronic health record system in the Breast and Endocrine Clinic at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa	2
A retrospective, observational study of medicolegal cases against obstetricians and gynaecologists in South Africa’s private sector	2
Contents	2
A collaborative and evolving response to the needs of frontline workers, patients and families during the COVID-19 pandemic at Tygerberg Hospital, Western Cape Province, South Africa	2
Echocardiographic features of infective endocarditis in South Africa: A prospective cohort study	2
Cerebral Palsy and Criteria Implicating Intrapartum Hypoxia in Neonatal Encephalopathy – An Obstetric Perspective for the South African Setting	2
The impact of routine pulse oximetry use on outcomes in COVID-19-infected patients at increased risk of severe disease: A retrospective cohort analysis	2
Post-laryngectomy simplified dysphagia score (SDS) tool: Potential for screening and comparison with the swallowing outcomes after laryngectomy (SOAL) tool	2
Personal and occupational experiences of COVID-19 and their effects on South African health workers’ wellbeing	2
Missed rifampicin and isoniazid resistance by commercial molecular assays	2
LSD and psilocybin for chronic nociplastic pain: A narrative review of the literature supporting the use of classic psychedelic agents in chronic pain	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	2
Assisted suicide: Ethical considerations and the South African debate	2
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	2
Decentralised HIV care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Ensuring safe community-based services	2
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	2
Heterologous vaccination of BNT162b2 in Ad26. COV2.S-vaccinated healthcare workers elicits long-term humoral immune response	2

Strengthening of district mental health services in Gauteng Province, South Africa	2
Learning in the district health system: How can meetings become spaces of reflection?	2
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	2
The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of diabetic foot ulcers in the South African public healthcare sector	2
Right of reply	2
Introducing an Ethics Framework for health priority-setting in South Africa on the path to universal health coverage	2
Another pandemic in the making	2
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	2
Sisonke phase 3B open-label study: Lessons learnt for national and global vaccination scale-up during epidemics	2
A national retrospective review of neonatal critical care transfers in dedicated critical care transport services in the private sector	2
Facilitating remote access to specialist medical expertise through the scaled up adoption of a smartphone application: A South African case	2
Understanding the differential impacts of COVID-19 among hospitalised patients in South Africa for equitable response	2
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to alcohol use in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	2
Healthcare Delivery	2
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	2
Rapid review of the effects of cloth and medical masks for preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in community and household settings	2
Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 2)	2
Mental illness: South Africa’s blind spot	2
A randomised trial comparing preoperative administration of single-dose kefazolin to kefazolin plus metronidazole as prophylactic antibiotics at caesarean section	2
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	2
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	2
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	2
Renoprotection in hypertension and diabetes – management problems lie ahead	2
SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence in healthcare workers and administrative and support staff: The first-wave experience at three academic hospitals in the Tshwane district of Gauteng Province, South Afr	2
Non-fatal injuries among boys and girls presenting to Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town	2
Telerheumatology in the era of COVID-19 in South Africa	2
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	2
Implementing E-MOTIVE for detection and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage in South Africa	2
Stimulant use among prehospital emergency care personnel in Gauteng Province, South Africa	2
George Dimopoulos	2
Erratum	2
The case for minimum unit prices on alcohol in South Africa	2
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare	2
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	2
Periprosthetic joint infection:A South African perspective	2
National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) changes the method of LDL-cholesterol calculation in South Africa	2
Examining the reliability of ICD-10 discharge coding in Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital administrative database	1
The impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	1
Safety and efficacy of inclisiran in South African patients at high cardiovascular risk: A subanalysis of the ORION phase III clinical trials	1
Focusing on goals	1
The impact of HIV co-infection on presentation and outcome in adults with tuberculous pericarditis: Findings from the IMPI trial	1
Response to Doctors for Life	1
Venous bicarbonate and creatine kinase as diagnostic and prognostic tools in the setting of acute traumatic rhabdomyolysis	1
COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign for healthcare workers in a low-resource setting: A clinician-driven initiative	1
COVID-19 herd immunity v. learning to live with the virus	1
Monkeypox in South Africa: The need for responsible messaging to avoid stigmatising the LGBTI community	1
Metabolic syndrome at 6 weeks after delivery in a cohort of pre-eclamptic and normotensive women	1
The role of treatment delays in surgical site infection after appendicectomy in a South African rural regional hospital	1
Liberalising cannabis legislation in South Africa: Potential public health consequences for adolescents and pregnant women	1
The role of new hepatitis B vaccines in South Africa	1
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	1
Evaluating the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an indicator for early referral of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia to a high-care facility	1
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	1
Burn injuries in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa: Quantifying the healthcare burden	1
Erratum	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
Special series on the District Health System	1
Correspondence and reply	1
Have we forgotten about HIV?	1
Pandemic escape plan: Discontinuing policies that have reached their expiry date	1
Profile of adverse drug reaction reports in South Africa: An analysis of VigiBase® for the year 2017	1
Characteristics, clinical manifestations and management of leprosy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A 20-year retrospective study	1
Tracking mortality in near to real time provides essential information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa in 2020	1
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	1
COVID-19 constrictive pericarditis	1
The epidemiology of traumatic brain injuries sustained by children under 10 years of age presenting to a tertiary hospital in Soweto, South Africa	1
Enterococcus faecalis ST21 harbouring Tn6009 isolated from a carriage sample in South Africa	1
Towards developing new private sector obstetric care and contracting models in South Africa: Insights from public hospitals using private general practitioners to provide caesarean deliveries	1
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the use of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs	1
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	1
Audit of surgical specialty patients and beds at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa in 2021	1
The gunshot-related injuries in trauma (GRIT) study: A profile of patients affected by gunshot-related orthopaedic injuries across South Africa	1
Treatment of tuberculous meningitis in adults: Is the duration of intensive-phase therapy adequate?	1
Outcomes of burns patients in a developing country: A single centre’s experience	1
Human vaccine and immunisation research in South Africa: A bibliometric study	1
Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder 6 weeks and 6 months after ICU: Six out of 10 survivors affected	1
The accuracy of the Thompson score in predicting early outcome in neonates with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy treated with therapeutic cooling in a tertiary hospital	1
Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response	1
Impact of COVID-19 on access to chronic kidney replacement therapy in the public sector of Western Cape Province, South Africa	1
Factors associated with partner notification intentions among symptomatic sexually transmitted infection service attendees in South Africa	1
Analgesic practices and predictors of use in South Africa-based runners	1
Clinical Update	1
The current standard of care of inflammatory bowel disease	1
A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	1
Profile of human papillomavirus genotypes in breast and oesophageal cancer patients in Pretoria, South Africa	1
Evaluation of the national clinical sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: Analysis of provincial and district-level data	1
Identifying non-tuberculosis mycobacteria: Is it time to introduce new molecular assays?	1
Will South Africa meet the Sustainable Development Goals target for maternal mortality by 2030?	1
The development of a nurse-led preoperative anaesthesia screening tool by Delphi consensus	1
Introduction to the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines	1
Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from the private healthcare sector in South Africa: A pilot study	1
Thalassaemia (part 1)	1
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	1
CPD	1
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	1