SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of SAMJ South African Medical Journal is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Long-COVID: An evolving problem with an extensive impact128
Impact of COVID-19 on routine primary healthcare services in South Africa56
High HIV prevalence in an early cohort of hospital admissions with COVID-19 in Cape Town, South Africa45
Mental health of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak: A rapid scoping review to inform provincial guidelines in South Africa39
Child health services during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa33
The effect of lockdown on intentional and nonintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary report30
COVID-19 lockdowns in low- and middle-income countries: Success against COVID-19 at the price of greater costs29
Qualitative and quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in untreated wastewater in Western Cape Province, South Africa27
Opportunities from a new disease for an old threat: Extending COVID-19 efforts to address tuberculosis in South Africa24
Trauma patterns during the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa expose vulnerability of women23
Tracking mortality in near to real time provides essential information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa in 202023
Clinical management of COVID-19: Experiences of the COVID-19 epidemic from Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa22
COVID-19: Getting ahead of the epidemic curve by early implementation of social distancing22
Locked down: Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on trauma presentations to the emergency department22
South Africans’ understanding of and response to the COVID-19 outbreak: An online survey22
COVID-19 and tuberculosis in South Africa: A dangerous combination21
COVID deaths in South Africa: 99 days since South Africa’s first death20
Collateral damage of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exacerbation of Antimicrobial Resistance and Disruptions to Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes?18
Bodies without names: A retrospective review of unidentified decedents at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010 - 201718
National Neonatal Sepsis Task Force launch: Supporting infection prevention and surveillance, outbreak investigation and antimicrobial stewardship in neonatal units in South Africa18
Unnatural deaths, alcohol bans and curfews: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment during COVID-1918
Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data17
The unanticipated costs of COVID-19 to South Africa’s quadruple disease burden16
Isolation and quarantine in South Africa during COVID-19: Draconian measures or proportional response?15
The effect of COVID-19 on essential surgical admissions in South Africa: A retrospective observational analysis of admissions before and during lockdown at a tertiary healthcare complex15
Primary healthcare workers at risk during COVID-19: An analysis of infections in HIV service providers in five districts of South Africa15
Prevention of COVID-19 in the workplace15
HIV and SARS-CoV-2 co-infection: The diagnostic challenges of dual pandemics14
Changes in surgical practice in 85 South African hospitals during COVID-19 hard lockdown14
COVID-19 restrictions and increased risk of overdose for street-based people with opioid dependence in South Africa13
COVID-19 and quarantine orders: A practical approach13
Epidemiology of human rabies in South Africa, 2008 - 201813
A multisectoral investigation of a neonatal unit outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteraemia at a regional hospital in Gauteng Province, South Africa13
Prostate cancer age-standardised incidence increase between 2006 and 2016 in Gauteng Province, South Africa: A laboratory data-based analysis12
A prospective observational study of developmental outcomes in survivors of neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy in South Africa12
The mechanics of setting up a COVID-19 response: Experiences of the COVID-19 epidemic from Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa12
Age discrimination in critical care triage in South Africa: The law and the allocation of scarce health resources in the COVID-19 pandemic12
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: A complex social phenomenon12
Genomic research and privacy: A response to Staunton et al.11
Effect of COVID-19 on HIV, tuberculosis, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV indicators in Mopani district, South Africa11
COVID-19: Science and global health governance under attack11
Implementing malaria control in South Africa, Eswatini and southern Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Maternal and neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 in a high-risk pregnant cohort with and without HIV11
The role of serological testing in the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak11
Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of uropathogens isolated from pregnant women in KwaZulu-Natal Province: 2011 - 201610
The COVID-19 crisis in South Africa: Protecting the vulnerable10
COVID-19 exposes health worker shortages in the USA and UK, but nationalism and self-interest must not exploit medical workforces from low- and middle-income countries10
Opportunistic pathogenic fungal co-infections are prevalent in critically ill COVID-19 patients: Are they risk factors for disease severity?10
HIV care coverage among HIV-positive adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: Results from the HERStory Study9
Trends in paediatric tuberculosis diagnoses in two South African hospitals early in the COVID-19 pandemic9
Estimating the surgical backlog from the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa: A retrospective analysis of six government hospitals9
Postmortem lung biopsies from four patients with COVID-19 at a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa9
KN95 filtering facepiece respirators distributed in South Africa fail safety testing protocols9
Validation of equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate in South Africans of mixed ancestry9
Epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the current status8
Two-year viral load suppression among adolescents receiving antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Metropole, South Africa, 2013 - 2015: A retrospective cohort analysis8
DIGITAL EYE SYNDROME – COVID 19 LOCKDOWN SIDE EFFECT?8
Are adults just big kids? Can the newer paediatric weight estimation systems be used in adults?8
Experiences of workplace bullying among academics in a health sciences faculty at a South African university8
Predischarge transcutaneous bilirubin screening reduces readmission rate for hyperbilirubinaemia in diverse South African newborns: A randomised controlled trial8
Health promotion: How government can ensure that the National Health Insurance Fund has a fighting chance8
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 Afr8
Sexual and gender-based violence and HIV in South Africa: An HIV facility-based study8
The utility of 2009 H1N1 pandemic data in understanding the transmission potential and estimating the burden of COVID-19 in South Africa to guide mitigation strategies8
High prevalence of multimorbidity and non-communicable disease risk factors in South African adolescents and youth living with HIV: Implications for integrated prevention8
Caesarean section rates in South Africa: A case study of the health systems challenges for the proposed National Health Insurance8
Non-vaccine serotype pneumococcal carriage in healthy infants in South Africa following introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine8
The effect of lockdown regulations on SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in Gauteng Province, South Africa7
Enterococcus faecalis ST21 harbouring Tn6009 isolated from a carriage sample in South Africa7
Water-wise hand preparation – the true impact of our practice: A controlled before-and-after study7
Sentinel seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Gauteng Province, South Africa, August - October 20207
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adult COVID-19 patients7
Comparative strategic approaches to COVID-19 in Africa: Balancing public interest with civil liberties7
COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign for healthcare workers in a low-resource setting: A clinician-driven initiative7
When do adolescent mothers return to school? Timing across rural and urban South Africa7
Prioritising action on diabetes during COVID-197
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 admissions7
What did we learn from South Africa’s first-ever tuberculosis prevalence survey?7
A descriptive analysis of the effect of the national COVID-19 lockdown on the workload and case mix of patients presenting to a district-level emergency centre in Cape Town, South Africa6
Decisive and strong leadership and intersectoral action from South Africa in response to the COVID-19 virus6
Drastic reduction of orthopaedic services at an urban tertiary hospital in South Africa during COVID-19: Lessons for the future response to the pandemic6
Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from the private healthcare sector in South Africa: A pilot study6
Substance use and depressive and anxiety symptoms among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa6
Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa guidelines for the training and credentialing in emergency point-of-care ultrasound6
Leadership and early strategic response to the SARS-CoV- 2 pandemic at a COVID-19 designated hospital in South Africa6
Paraffin dangers, health and socioeconomic consequences: Urgent need for policy action6
Causative pathogens and antibiotic resistance in community-acquired urinary tract infections in central South Africa6
Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID-19: A rapid Cochrane review6
COVID-19 collateral damage: Alcohol rub dermatitis as an emerging problem6
The HIV cascade of care among serodiscordant couples in four high HIV prevalence settings in sub-Saharan Africa6
COVID-19 wave 4 in Western Cape Province, South Africa: Fewer hospitalisations, but new challenges for a depleted workforce6
Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease6
Examining the reliability of ICD-10 discharge coding in Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital administrative database6
Introducing an Ethics Framework for health priority-setting in South Africa on the path to universal health coverage6
COVID-19 as an occupational disease?6
The case for minimum unit prices on alcohol in South Africa6
Research imperialism resurfaces in South Africa in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – this time, via a digital portal6
The readability of informed consent forms for research studies conducted in South Africa6
A rapid review of the effectiveness of screening practices at airports, land borders and ports to reduce the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases such as COVID-196
Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer risk perception and vaccine acceptability among adolescent girls and young women in Durban, South Africa6
Hanging-related injury in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa6
Barriers to adequate analgesia in paediatric burns patients6
The impact of routine pulse oximetry use on outcomes in COVID-19-infected patients at increased risk of severe disease: A retrospective cohort analysis6
The impact of COVID-19 on routine patient care from a laboratory perspective6
Preparing healthcare facilities to operate safely and effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic: The missing piece in the puzzle6
Antimicrobial stewardship in the Western Cape: A situational analysis of existing facility-level initiatives6
Nicotine dependence, socioeconomic status, lifestyle behaviours and lifetime quit attempts among adult smokers in South Africa6
A total cost perspective of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in two South African medical schemes servicing the public healthcare sector5
Using ceftazidime-avibactam for persistent carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens infection highlights antimicrobial stewardship challenges with new beta-lactam-inhibitor combination antibiotics5
Antiretroviral therapy non-adherence among HIV-positive patients presenting to an emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa: Associations and reasons5
Metabolic alkalosis in hospitalised COVID-19 patients: A window to the pathogenesis?5
South African health professionals’ state of well-being during the emergence of COVID-195
Safety and efficacy of inclisiran in South African patients at high cardiovascular risk: A subanalysis of the ORION phase III clinical trials5
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)5
Understanding the differential impacts of COVID-19 among hospitalised patients in South Africa for equitable response5
COVID-19 in children: Should we be worried?5
Financial burden of orthopaedic gunshot-related injury management at a major trauma centre5
Affordable digital innovation to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission among healthcare workers.5
Dose-related treatment outcomes in South African patients prescribed clofazimine for drug-resistant tuberculosis5
The profile of patients presenting with intentional self-poisoning to the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital emergency department, South Africa5
Personal protective equipment (PPE) in a pandemic: Approaches to PPE preservation for South African healthcare facilities5
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to alcohol use in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 20125
Development of a method to determine the cost of breast cancer treatment with chemotherapy at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa5
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 20215
Unspoken victims: A national study of male rape incidents and police investigations in South Africa5
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: An urgent need to relook at the training of the African health workforce5
Managing the healthcare demand-supply gap during and after COVID-19: The need to review the approach to healthcare priority-setting in South Africa5
Change in profile of COVID-19 deaths in Western Cape Province, South Africa, during the fourth wave5
Thoughts of self-harm in early and late pregnancy in urban South Africa: Investigating prevalence, predictors and screening options5
COVID-19 herd immunity v. learning to live with the virus5
Factors predicting 6-month retention among people with opioid use disorders accessing outpatient methadone maintenance therapy in Tshwane, South Africa5
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to interpersonal violence in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 20124
The effect of lockdown on intentional and nonintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary report4
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa4
Guidelines for the use of WhatsApp groups in clinical settings in South Africa4
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 20124
Workers’ compensation claims for occupational tuberculosis in South African health workers: Outcomes and workers’ experiences4
Respiratory presentations to acute services at a tertiary hospital in South Africa4
When culture, traditions and public health clash: A paradigm shift urgently needed to stem the spread of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe4
COVID-19 in long-term care facilities in South Africa: No time for complacency4
South African healthcare workers and COVID-19: a shared responsibility to protect a precious and limited resource4
Maximising health science student volunteers for the COVID-19 response: A valuable resource4
Medical cannabis: What practitioners need to know4
Personal and occupational experiences of COVID-19 and their effects on South African health workers’ wellbeing4
Shortfall in stroke care: A study of ischaemic stroke care practices in a South African metropole4
Targeting those left behind in Zimbabwe’s HIV response: A call for decriminalisation of key populations to rapidly achieve 95-95-95 targets4
The training of healthcare professionals: An expense or an investment?4
COVID-19 antibody testing: From hype to immunological reality4
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to childhood stunting, wasting and underweight in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 20124
Critical care triage during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: A constitutional imperative!4
Essential medicine selection during the COVID-19 pandemic: Enabling access in uncharted territory4
Adolescent girls and young women: Policy-to-implementation gaps for addressing sexual and reproductive health needs in South Africa4
Parental access to hospitalised children during infectious disease pandemics such as COVID-194
Blood shortage in COVID-19: A crisis within a crisis4
Effect of COVID-19 pandemic decisions on tertiary-level surgical services in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa4
The COVID-19 pandemic and traffic accidents4
High virological failure rates in HIV-1 perinatally infected children in South Africa: A retrospective cohort study3
Investigating hair zinc concentrations in children with and without atopic dermatitis3
A prospective clinical audit to evaluate postoperative quality of recovery in adults at New Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa3
Sisonke phase 3B open-label study: Lessons learnt for national and global vaccination scale-up during epidemics3
South Africa should be using all the COVID-19 vaccines available to it – urgently3
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 20123
A retrospective description of primary immuno­deficiency diseases at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, 1975 - 20173
A narrative review on spinal deformities in people with cerebral palsy: Measurement, norm values, incidence, risk factors and treatment3
Meta-analytic magic, ivermectin, and socially responsible reporting3
Appropriateness of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans in a rural regional hospital in South Africa: A 6-year follow-up study3
Benefit v. risk when using chloroquine in patients with severe COVID-19 disease3
Preventable deaths among youth in South Africa: Measuring life expectancy in the absence of non-communicable diseases and its implications for the healthcare system3
Privacy rights of human research participants in South Africa must be taken seriously3
Is the COVID-19 regulation that prohibits parental visits to their children who are patients in hospital invalid in terms of the Constitution? What should hospitals do?3
Vasopressor therapy in atypical antipsychotic overdose3
The economics of poisoning: The role of telemedicine and toxicovigilance3
Overview3
Bellwether operations in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, are performed at regional and tertiary rather than district hospitals3
Non-communicable disease comorbidities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa3
Criminalisation of transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A potential challenge to controlling the outbreak in South Africa3
Anal squamous cell carcinoma in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, with special reference to the influence of HIV infection on clinical presentation and management outcome3
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results3
Integrated, people-centred eye care: Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services3
COVID-19 response in South African communities: Screening, testing, tracing and movement modelling3
Adjuvant trastuzumab in early HER2-positive breast cancer: Journeying towards the optimal duration of therapy in South Africa3
Venous bicarbonate and creatine kinase as diagnostic and prognostic tools in the setting of acute traumatic rhabdomyolysis3
Smoking and drinking habits of women in subsequent pregnancies after specific advice about the dangers of these exposures during pregnancy3
Costing total hip arthroplasty in a South African state tertiary hospital3
Obstructive jaundice: Studies on predictors of biliary infection and microbiological analysis in an HIV setting3
Pharmacist-initiated antiretroviral therapy (PIMART)3
COVID-19 in pregnancy in South Africa: Tracking the epidemic and defining the natural history3
Adult pure red cell aplasia at Universitas Academic Hospital, Bloemfontein, South Africa: A 9-year review3
Colonoscopy practice in South Africa: The way forward3
A nurse-led intervention to improve management of virological failure in public sector HIV clinics in Durban, South Africa: A pre- and post-implementation evaluation3
COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in South Africa: The added value of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-23
The burden of hypertension in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa: A 6-year perspective3
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: An update for the COVID-19 era3
Leveraging epidemiology as a decision support tool during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa3
The prevalence of pulmonary embolism in non-hospitalised de-isolated patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 disease3
Governing a pandemic: A case study of South Africa’s coordination and management structures used to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic3
The Scientists’ Collective 10-point proposal for equitable and timeous access to COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa3
COVID-19: Experience of a tertiary children’s hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa3
Genetic testing approaches for hereditary breast cancer: Perspectives from a private diagnostic laboratory3
Bodies without names: A global challenge3
A prospective study of paediatric preoperative fasting times at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa3
The role of treatment delays in surgical site infection after appendicectomy in a South African rural regional hospital3
National expenditure on health research in South Africa: How has the landscape changed in the past decade?3
Dangers of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol during pregnancy3
Child health services during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa3
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 20123
A simulation-based study evaluating the preparedness of interns’ post-anaesthesia rotation in managing a failed obstetric intubation scenario: Is our training good enough?3
Maintaining focus on administering effective malaria treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic3
WhatsApp-propriate? A retrospective content analysis of WhatsApp use and potential breaches in confidentiality among a team of doctors at a district hospital, South Africa3
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