SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Physical activity in obesity management	25
The usability of an electronic health record in a public healthcare facility in South Africa	21
Clot twist – D-dimer analysis of healthy adults receiving heterologous or homologous booster COVID-19 vaccine after a single prime dose of Ad26.COV2.S in a phase II randomised open-label trial, BaSiS	19
Bridging the gap in rural and underserved areas through AI‐enabled solutions	16
Agreement between various non-invasive blood pressure measurement sites in the obese population using the VitalStream system as control	16
Medicine and the Law	15
Acute cellular rejection in adult liver transplant recipients in Johannesburg, South Africa	15
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	14
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	14
Healthcare Delivery	13
Pharmacotherapy for obesity management	12
The National Health Insurance Act: Possible private health funding reform scenarios	12
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
Response to the letter by the National Department of Health regarding ‘Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa’	11
Intravenous antibiotic use in a private mining hospital in North West Province, South Africa	11
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	11
Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriage in school children from Cape Town: A cross- sectional study and systematic review	11
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	11
Prevention and harm reduction of obesity (clinical prevention)	10
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	9
The association between reproductive hormones and asthma-related outcomes in boys in the rural Western Cape Province, South Africa	9
E-cigarette, cannabis, hookah and tobacco use patterns in fee-paying South African high schools	9
The Department of Radiation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University	8
A short history of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Walter Sisulu University	8

Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
Evaluation of the national clinical sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: Analysis of provincial and district-level data	8
Trisomy 21 screening with αlpha software and the Fetal Medicine Foundation algorithm	7
The assessment of preventive measures in infants admitted with acute diarrhoeal disease to Pelonomi Tertiary Hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa	7
Prevalence and severity of anaemia in persons with haemophilia and von Willebrand disease at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa	7
Comment on ‘Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis’	7
Death trends for 2010 - 2022 for members of a large private medical scheme in South Africa	7
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	7
Thrombosis and bleeding outcomes with warfarin conversion to rivaroxaban during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Persistent hypertension, albuminuria and low glomerular filtration rate in schoolchildren in Kano metropolis, Nigeria	6
Prof. Mkhuseli Kenneth Mashiyi (19 November 1964 - 8 February 2025)	6
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
Pregnant patients with severe headaches – don’t forget brain tumours!	6
Clinicians and artificial intelligence	6
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	6
Profile of deliberate self-poisoning admissions in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (2018 - 2023) and the impact of COVID-19	6
The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis	5
Tackling clinical trials disparities in Africa	5
Case fatality in severe acute malnutrition: Determinants and modifiable factors in hospitalised children in Vhembe district, South Africa	5
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	5
South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination	5
Medicine and the Law	5
Ensuring access to palliative care for cervical cancer patients	5
Response to letter regarding ‘Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations’	5
Neck dissection for advanced laryngeal cancer: Role and relevance in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	5
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
External validation of a prognostic score for oesophageal cancer (PSOC) for patients treated with palliative intent in a resource-limited setting	4
The genesis of a Paediatrics and Child Health department over the past 40 years at South Africa’s oldest rural medical school	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
Retraction:	4
Exploring a community’s understanding of HIV vaccine‑induced seropositivity in a South African research setting	4
Skin scar characteristics in prediction of severe intraperitoneal adhesions in women undergoing repeat caesarean section	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
Erratum	4
An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement	4
Clinical practice guidelines for the management of fever and neutropenia in South African children and adolescents with cancer	4
Editorial Study: Contrasting epidemiological perspectives on environmental risk factors for breast cancer in Africa and Western regions	4
Recurrent venous thrombosis – an unusual first presentation of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 3B	4
Early online	4
Perspectives of doctors, nurses and rehabilitation therapists in Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces’ public hospitals on remunerative work outside of the public service	4
Case Report	4
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans.	4
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	4
Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a rural area in South Africa	4
Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa	4
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

The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review	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
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa	3
Analysis of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination and infection: A retrospective, comparative cohort study using a claims database from Discovery Health, a managed care organisation in South A	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	3
Beyond valve replacement: Rethinking prosthetic heart valve care	3
Serum lipids and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to a tertiary hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
The Use of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in relatioN to patiEnt risk profilINg (TUNE IN) Wave 3 study	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
Designing a universal electronic health record system: Creating a reliable national health database for AI and its application in healthcare in South Africa	3
Evaluating the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an indicator for early referral of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia to a high-care facility	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
The duration of phentermine therapy in the private healthcare sector of South Africa: A retrospective analysis	3
Mob assault victim fatalities admitted at a forensic pathology laboratory in a South African rural province	3
Primary care and primary healthcare in obesity management	3
Association of tuberculosis active case finding with knowledge, attitudes, stigma and health-seeking behaviour among patients in Eswatini	3
Nocardia species epidemiology and susceptibility profiles from 2019 to 2022 in South Africa	3
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
A rare case of paraneoplastic dermatomyositis secondary to smouldering multiple myeloma referred for proteinuria	3
A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	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
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	3
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	3
Opportunities for health system strengthening to reduce preventable trauma deaths in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: Findings from an expert panel review	2
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2
The role of mental health in obesity management	2
Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	2
A 5-year retrospective study to determine the spectrum of crescentic glomerulonephritis in three tertiary hospitals in Gauteng Province, South Africa	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
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
The mysterious joint: Septic arthritis and acute osteomyelitis due to Fusarium species in a child with type II Chiari malformation	2
Depressive symptoms among community service doctors in South Africa	2
Vision and future of South Africa’s oldest rural medical school as it navigates towards its first century	2
‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
A  new perspective to aid in MMed research report completion: The effort-time trajectory model	2
Narrowing the care and treatment gap through a human resources for mental health plan: Key considerations	2
Correspondence and reply	2
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, South Africa	2
The impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	2
POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe	2
Metabolic and bariatric surgery: Postoperative management	2
Improving lives on borrowed time – Andrew Wilkins	2
The state of caesarean sections in South Africa: Challenges, unknowns and the way forward	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	2
Community-based education: A strategy for training community-responsive health professionals	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	2
Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa: A policy analysis of consensus reform proposals	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	2
When conflicting interests challenge relevance: History of the development of Public Health at Walter Sisulu University	2
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	2
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	2
A turn for the worse: The impact of deteriorating healthcare spending in South Africa	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
Enhancing cervical cancer screening coverage in selected primary healthcare sites using Lean thinking: The CerviScreen programme	2
Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?	2
Clinical practice	2
The pattern of antibiotic utilisation among intensive care unit patients hospitalised in a Gauteng (South African) provincial tertiary hospital: Comparing findings before and during COVID-19	2
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Supporting doctors’ mental health: Exploring the utility of a life skills programme for interns in rural Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	2
Achieving community-oriented primary healthcare through collaborative learning: The KwaZulu-Natal Primary Health Care Transformation Committee	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	2
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2
The role of AI in transforming healthcare in South Africa	2
Distribution and demographics of critical care subspecialists for adult patients in South Africa	2
Transforming obesity care: Evidence-based guideline for South Africa	2
Commercial products and programmes in obesity management	2
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2

Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
Case report: First reported case of spondylodiscitis caused by Gemella morbillorum in South Africa	2
Routine blood monitoring in acne vulgaris patients on isotretinoin: Is reassessment warranted? A retrospective cohort study from Tygerberg Hospital	2
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	2
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	2
Why data is the most cost-effective investment for health technology assessment in South Africa	2