SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Long-COVID: An evolving problem with an extensive impact	144
Impact of COVID-19 on routine primary healthcare services in South Africa	74
Child health services during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	41
The effect of lockdown on intentional and nonintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary report	37
Opportunities from a new disease for an old threat: Extending COVID-19 efforts to address tuberculosis in South Africa	31
Qualitative and quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in untreated wastewater in Western Cape Province, South Africa	28
Locked down: Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on trauma presentations to the emergency department	28
Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data	27
Unnatural deaths, alcohol bans and curfews: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment during COVID-19	27
Tracking mortality in near to real time provides essential information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa in 2020	27
Primary healthcare workers at risk during COVID-19: An analysis of infections in HIV service providers in five districts of South Africa	17
Prostate cancer age-standardised incidence increase between 2006 and 2016 in Gauteng Province, South Africa: A laboratory data-based analysis	15
Maternal and neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 in a high-risk pregnant cohort with and without HIV	14
Effect of COVID-19 on HIV, tuberculosis, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV indicators in Mopani district, South Africa	13
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: A complex social phenomenon	12
Trends in paediatric tuberculosis diagnoses in two South African hospitals early in the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Age discrimination in critical care triage in South Africa: The law and the allocation of scarce health resources in the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Experiences of workplace bullying among academics in a health sciences faculty at a South African university	11
Estimating the surgical backlog from the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa: A retrospective analysis of six government hospitals	10
High prevalence of multimorbidity and non-communicable disease risk factors in South African adolescents and youth living with HIV: Implications for integrated prevention	10
HIV care coverage among HIV-positive adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: Results from the HERStory Study	10
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	10
Two-year viral load suppression among adolescents receiving antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Metropole, South Africa, 2013 - 2015: A retrospective cohort analysis	9
Non-vaccine serotype pneumococcal carriage in healthy infants in South Africa following introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine	9
The profile of patients presenting with intentional self-poisoning to the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital emergency department, South Africa	9

The impact of COVID-19 national lockdown on orthopaedic trauma admissions in the northern part of South Africa: A multicentre review of tertiary- and secondary-level hospital admissions	9
Causative pathogens and antibiotic resistance in community-acquired urinary tract infections in central South Africa	9
The HIV cascade of care among serodiscordant couples in four high HIV prevalence settings in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	9
Using ceftazidime-avibactam for persistent carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens infection highlights antimicrobial stewardship challenges with new beta-lactam-inhibitor combination antibiotics	8
The readability of informed consent forms for research studies conducted in South Africa	8
KN95 filtering facepiece respirators distributed in South Africa fail safety testing protocols	8
The case for minimum unit prices on alcohol in South Africa	8
Paraffin dangers, health and socioeconomic consequences: Urgent need for policy action	8
Substance use and depressive and anxiety symptoms among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa	8
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to alcohol use in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
Are adults just big kids? Can the newer paediatric weight estimation systems be used in adults?	8
COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign for healthcare workers in a low-resource setting: A clinician-driven initiative	8
Drastic reduction of orthopaedic services at an urban tertiary hospital in South Africa during COVID-19: Lessons for the future response to the pandemic	7
Examining the reliability of ICD-10 discharge coding in Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital administrative database	7
What did we learn from South Africa’s first-ever tuberculosis prevalence survey?	7
COVID-19 collateral damage: Alcohol rub dermatitis as an emerging problem	7
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	7
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to interpersonal violence in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	7
Enterococcus faecalis ST21 harbouring Tn6009 isolated from a carriage sample in South Africa	7
The impact of COVID-19 on routine patient care from a laboratory perspective	7
Antimicrobial stewardship in the Western Cape: A situational analysis of existing facility-level initiatives	7
Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease	7
Retain rural doctors: Burnout, depression and anxiety in medical doctors working in rural KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	7
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	7
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in patients with bacteraemia at tertiary academic hospitals in South Africa, 2019 - 2020: An update	7
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	7
Change in profile of COVID-19 deaths in Western Cape Province, South Africa, during the fourth wave	6
COVID-19 herd immunity v. learning to live with the virus	6
The impact of routine pulse oximetry use on outcomes in COVID-19-infected patients at increased risk of severe disease: A retrospective cohort analysis	6
Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa guidelines for the training and credentialing in emergency point-of-care ultrasound	6
Blood shortage in COVID-19: A crisis within a crisis	6
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	6
Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from the private healthcare sector in South Africa: A pilot study	6
Introducing an Ethics Framework for health priority-setting in South Africa on the path to universal health coverage	6
Antiretroviral therapy non-adherence among HIV-positive patients presenting to an emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa: Associations and reasons	6
The effect of lockdown on intentional and nonintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary report	6
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: An update for the COVID-19 era	6
Sentinel seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Gauteng Province, South Africa, August - October 2020	6
Undiagnosed comorbidities among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19 in South African public hospitals	5
Dose-related treatment outcomes in South African patients prescribed clofazimine for drug-resistant tuberculosis	5
Pharmacist-led medication therapy management of diabetes club patients at a primary healthcare clinic in Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective and prospective audit	5
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	5
Personal and occupational experiences of COVID-19 and their effects on South African health workers’ wellbeing	5
Dolutegravir drug-drug interactions	5
Managing the healthcare demand-supply gap during and after COVID-19: The need to review the approach to healthcare priority-setting in South Africa	5
Overview	5
Safety and efficacy of inclisiran in South African patients at high cardiovascular risk: A subanalysis of the ORION phase III clinical trials	5
The prevalence of pulmonary embolism in non-hospitalised de-isolated patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 disease	5
A total cost perspective of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in two South African medical schemes servicing the public healthcare sector	5

The next generation: Pregnancy in adolescents and women living with perinatally acquired HIV in South Africa	5
COVID-19 wave 4 in Western Cape Province, South Africa: Fewer hospitalisations, but new challenges for a depleted workforce	5
Thoughts of self-harm in early and late pregnancy in urban South Africa: Investigating prevalence, predictors and screening options	5
Pharmacist-initiated antiretroviral therapy (PIMART)	5
Factors predicting 6-month retention among people with opioid use disorders accessing outpatient methadone maintenance therapy in Tshwane, South Africa	5
Understanding the differential impacts of COVID-19 among hospitalised patients in South Africa for equitable response	5
When culture, traditions and public health clash: A paradigm shift urgently needed to stem the spread of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe	4
The COVID-19 pandemic and traffic accidents	4
Governing a pandemic: A case study of South Africa’s coordination and management structures used to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Leveraging epidemiology as a decision support tool during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa	4
Parental access to hospitalised children during infectious disease pandemics such as COVID-19	4
Delirium in HIV-infected patients admitted to acute medical wards post universal access to antiretrovirals in South Africa	4
Venous bicarbonate and creatine kinase as diagnostic and prognostic tools in the setting of acute traumatic rhabdomyolysis	4
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	4
A simulation-based study evaluating the preparedness of interns’ post-anaesthesia rotation in managing a failed obstetric intubation scenario: Is our training good enough?	4
Adult pure red cell aplasia at Universitas Academic Hospital, Bloemfontein, South Africa: A 9-year review	4
MEDICINE AND THE LAW	4
Maintaining focus on administering effective malaria treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Incidence of febrile seizures and associated factors in children in Soweto, South Africa	4
High virological failure rates in HIV-1 perinatally infected children in South Africa: A retrospective cohort study	4
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to childhood stunting, wasting and underweight in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	4
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	4
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetables in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	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
Low mortality of people living with diabetes mellitus diagnosed with COVID-19 and managed at a field hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa	4
Colonoscopy practice in South Africa: The way forward	4
Loadshedding and Healthcare: Salt in The Wound?	4
Respiratory presentations to acute services at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	4
Targeting those left behind in Zimbabwe’s HIV response: A call for decriminalisation of key populations to rapidly achieve 95-95-95 targets	4
Establishing local reference intervals for full blood count and white blood cell differential counts in Cape Town, South Africa	4
Effect of COVID-19 pandemic decisions on tertiary-level surgical services in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	4
South Africa should be using all the COVID-19 vaccines available to it – urgently	4
Critical care triage during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: A constitutional imperative!	4
COVID-19 response in South African communities: Screening, testing, tracing and movement modelling	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
Shortfall in stroke care: A study of ischaemic stroke care practices in a South African metropole	4
Sisonke phase 3B open-label study: Lessons learnt for national and global vaccination scale-up during epidemics	4
Perspectives on gestational diabetes mellitus in South Africa	4
The economics of poisoning: The role of telemedicine and toxicovigilance	4
A nurse-led intervention to improve management of virological failure in public sector HIV clinics in Durban, South Africa: A pre- and post-implementation evaluation	4
Driver intoxication and risk for fatal crashes in South Africa: A 3-year review	4
Liberalising cannabis legislation in South Africa: Potential public health consequences for adolescents and pregnant women	3
Evaluation of the national clinical sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: Analysis of provincial and district-level data	3
Treating urinary tract infections in public sector primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa: A pharmaceutical perspective	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	3
A prospective observational study of preoperative natriuretic peptide testing in adult non-cardiac surgical patients in hospitals in Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
The Scientists’ Collective 10-point proposal for equitable and timeous access to COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa	3
Telehealth opportunities for South Africa have been brought into focus by the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Periprosthetic joint infection:A South African perspective	3
WhatsApp-propriate? A retrospective content analysis of WhatsApp use and potential breaches in confidentiality among a team of doctors at a district hospital, South Africa	3
Appropriateness of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans in a rural regional hospital in South Africa: A 6-year follow-up study	3
Namaqualand hip dysplasia in South Africa: The molecular determinant elucidated	3
Secondary health conditions in people with spinal cord injury in South Africa: Prevalence and associated factors	3
Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy should not be discontinued in low- and middle-income countries	3
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease in tuberculosis-hyperendemic South Africa	3
Implementation of self-monitoring of blood glucose for patients with insulin-dependent diabetes at a rural non-communicable disease clinic in Neno, Malawi	3
Analgesic practices and predictors of use in South Africa-based runners	3
Meta-analytic magic, ivermectin, and socially responsible reporting	3
Costing total hip arthroplasty in a South African state tertiary hospital	3
Hospital-based evaluation of tuberculosis-exposed neonates: An approach to complement the South African national guidance	3
Stimulant use among prehospital emergency care personnel in Gauteng Province, South Africa	3
Medicine and the Law	3
Healthcare Delivery	3
Recovery and transforming the South African health system	3
The cost of harmful alcohol use in South Africa: A commentary	3
COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in South Africa: The added value of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2	3
Child health services during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	3
Going where the data are: Connecting to Trello for daily statistics in the COVID-19 era and beyond	3
Acute kidney injury after major non-cardiac surgery: Incidence and risk factors	3
The spectrum of hearing abnormalities in patients living with diabetes mellitus	3
Provision of long-term renal replacement therapy to non-national patients in South Africa	3
Metabolic syndrome at 6 weeks after delivery in a cohort of pre-eclamptic and normotensive women	3
The role of treatment delays in surgical site infection after appendicectomy in a South African rural regional hospital	3
COVID-19: Experience of a tertiary children’s hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Exploring a community’s understanding of HIV vaccine‑induced seropositivity in a South African research setting	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
Artificial intelligence (AI) or augmented intelligence? How big data and AI are transforming healthcare: Challenges and opportunities	3
Integrated, people-centred eye care: Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services	3
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	3
Obstructive jaundice: Studies on predictors of biliary infection and microbiological analysis in an HIV setting	3

Prevalence and characteristics of incidental colorectal polyps in patients undergoing colonoscopy at a South African tertiary institution	3
A natural history of efavirenz drug-induced liver injury	3
Soliciting parental consent among adolescent minor mothers: A barrier in adolescent HIV research?	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
The burden of hypertension in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa: A 6-year perspective	3
Non-communicable disease comorbidities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	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	2
Urgent appeal to allow all professional nurses and midwives to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in South Africa	2
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	2
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to unsafe water and lack of sanitation and hygiene in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	2
A severity-of-illness score in patients with tuberculosis requiring intensive care	2
The role of the Minister of Health in the National Health Insurance Bill: Challenges and options for the Portfolio Committee on Health	2
When cells become medicines: A South African perspective	2
Call for the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority to revisit regulations relating to single- use medical devices	2
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	2
Factors affecting specialist psychiatry training in South Africa: Bullying during specialist psychiatric training?	2
Patterns of disease on admission to children’s wards and changes during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa	2
The gunshot-related injuries in trauma (GRIT) study: A profile of patients affected by gunshot-related orthopaedic injuries across South Africa	2
Echocardiographic features of infective endocarditis in South Africa: A prospective cohort study	2
Improving the follow up of childhood cancer survivors in South Africa	2
Post-laryngectomy simplified dysphagia score (SDS) tool: Potential for screening and comparison with the swallowing outcomes after laryngectomy (SOAL) tool	2
Antibiogram profiles and efficacy of antibiotic regimens of bacterial isolates from chronic osteomyelitis of the appendicular skeleton: A developing-world perspective	2
Underdiagnosis of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in South Africa	2
A multicentre cross-sectional descriptive study evaluating the cardiovascular risk profile of preoperatively identified patients with hypertension	2
Summary of childhood asthma guidelines, 2021: A consensus document	2
Economic growth as an underlying probable systemic driver for childhood obesity in South Africa: A Joinpoint regression and ecological analysis over 10 years	2
The use of emergency medical services for palliative situations in Western Cape Province, South Africa: A retrospective, descriptive analysis of patient records	2
Informal gold miners with mercury toxicity: Novel asymmetrical neurological presentations	2
Discrepancies between clinical diagnoses and autopsy findings: A comparative study conducted in South Africa	2
International normalised ratio control in a non-metropolitan setting in Western Cape Province, South Africa	2
Risk communication and community engagement – unlocking the key to South Africa’s response to SARS-CoV-2	2
General Medical Council report exposes unethical recruitment of doctors in the UK from low-resource countries	2
Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	2
The characteristics and costs of severe theophylline toxicity in a tertiary critical care unit in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
Evaluating the impact of single exit pricing (SEP) on medicine product withdrawal from the private healthcare market in South Africa	2
Adverse drug reactions reported to a provincial public health sector pharmacovigilance programme in South Africa	2
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans: Special patient groups and surgical aspects.	2
Human papillomavirus prevalence among unvaccinated young female college students in Botswana: A cross-sectional study	2
Profile of human papillomavirus genotypes in breast and oesophageal cancer patients in Pretoria, South Africa	2
Management of asthma exacerbations in children	2
Strengthening of district mental health services in Gauteng Province, South Africa	2
The adjunctive use of carbimazole during radioactive iodine treatment reduces the cure rate of Graves’ disease	2
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	2
Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 2)	2
Zimbabwe’s vaccination momentum needs an 'urgent boost' ahead of an imminent COVID-19 resurgence	2
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	2
Incidence and predictors of sexually transmitted infections among adult HIV-positive patients receiving antiretroviral therapy at Themba Lethu HIV clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
One in four die from acute infectious illness in an emergency department in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis due to Rickettsia conorii infection	2
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high body mass index in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	2
Saved by the pump: Two successful resuscitations utilising emergency department-initiated extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in South Africa	2
Assessing South African medical interns’ experience and confidence in managing obstetric emergencies	2
Predictors of mortality in acute hospitalised COVID-19 pneumonia patients: A retrospective cohort study at two tertiary-level hospitals in Zambia	2
The South African Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines	2
Thalassaemia (part 1)	2
Laboratory parameters associated with prolonged hospital length of stay in COVID-19 patients in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) use and glycaemic control in patients living with diabetes mellitus attending public healthcare facilities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
Nephrolithiasis (part 1): Epidemiology, causes and pathogenesis of recurrent nephrolithiasis	2
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to iron deficiency in South Africa, 2000, 2006 and 2012	2
Quality and turnaround times of viral load monitoring under prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV Option B+ in six South African districts with a high antenatal HIV burden	2
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	2
A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community	2
Introducing the South African Rare Diseases Access Initiative	2
Mental illness: South Africa’s blind spot	2
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	2
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	2
A national retrospective review of neonatal critical care transfers in dedicated critical care transport services in the private sector	2
Decentralised HIV care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Ensuring safe community-based services	2
Secondary polycythaemia with elevated carbon monoxide levels due to hookah pipe smoking: A public health concern.	2
Hunger as a driver of depressive symptoms: Optimising responses to mental health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?	2