SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Bridging the gap in rural and underserved areas through AI‐enabled solutions	23
Physical activity in obesity management	18
The usability of an electronic health record in a public healthcare facility in South Africa	16
Acute cellular rejection in adult liver transplant recipients in Johannesburg, South Africa	16
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
Renoprotection in hypertension and diabetes – management problems lie ahead	13
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	13
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare	13
Medicine and the Law	13
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	12
Pharmacotherapy for obesity management	12
New developments with the Health Promotion Levy in South Africa	11
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
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
Healthcare Delivery	11
Prevention and harm reduction of obesity (clinical prevention)	10
Response to the letter by the National Department of Health regarding ‘Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa’	10
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	10
Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriage in school children from Cape Town: A cross- sectional study and systematic review	10
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
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	9
E-cigarette, cannabis, hookah and tobacco use patterns in fee-paying South African high schools	9

Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	9
A short history of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Walter Sisulu University	8
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	8
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
Pregnant patients with severe headaches – don’t forget brain tumours!	7
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
Comment on ‘Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis’	7
Where have we come from and where are we going? The paediatric HIV programme in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2004 to 2018: A retrospective analysis of programme trends	7
Death trends for 2010 - 2022 for members of a large private medical scheme in South Africa	7
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
Profile of deliberate self-poisoning admissions in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (2018 - 2023) and the impact of COVID-19	6
Clinicians and artificial intelligence	6
Thrombosis and bleeding outcomes with warfarin conversion to rivaroxaban during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Prevalence and severity of anaemia in persons with haemophilia and von Willebrand disease at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa	6
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	6
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	6
Leveraging epidemiology as a decision support tool during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa	6
Trisomy 21 screening with αlpha software and the Fetal Medicine Foundation algorithm	6
Persistent hypertension, albuminuria and low glomerular filtration rate in schoolchildren in Kano metropolis, Nigeria	6
Erratum	6
Response to letter regarding ‘Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations’	5
An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement	5
Tackling clinical trials disparities in Africa	5
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	5
The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis	5
South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination	5
Ensuring access to palliative care for cervical cancer patients	5
Neck dissection for advanced laryngeal cancer: Role and relevance in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	5
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans.	5
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
Foreword: Preparedness and response to SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa	4
Exploring a community’s understanding of HIV vaccine‑induced seropositivity in a South African research setting	4
Mandrax use, sexual risk, and opportunities for pre-exposure prophylaxis among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa	4
Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	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
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
District Health System performance in South Africa: Are current monitoring systems optimal?	4
Retraction:	4
Medicine and the Law	4
Early online	4
Case fatality in severe acute malnutrition: Determinants and modifiable factors in hospitalised children in Vhembe district, South Africa	4
Case Report	4
The right to access healthcare: Progressive realisation or regressive denial?	4
Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a rural area in South Africa	4
Recurrent venous thrombosis – an unusual first presentation of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 3B	4
Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa	4

Editorial Study: Contrasting epidemiological perspectives on environmental risk factors for breast cancer in Africa and Western regions	4
The duration of phentermine therapy in the private healthcare sector of South Africa: A retrospective analysis	3
Primary care and primary healthcare in obesity management	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
The Use of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in relatioN to patiEnt risk profilINg (TUNE IN) Wave 3 study	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
Association of tuberculosis active case finding with knowledge, attitudes, stigma and health-seeking behaviour among patients in Eswatini	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	3
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, 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
The impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Correspondence and reply	3
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
Beyond valve replacement: Rethinking prosthetic heart valve care	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	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
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa	3
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	3
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Nocardia species epidemiology and susceptibility profiles from 2019 to 2022 in South Africa	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
Right of reply	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
Monkeypox in South Africa: The need for responsible messaging to avoid stigmatising the LGBTI community	3
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	3
POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe	2
Case report: First reported case of spondylodiscitis caused by Gemella morbillorum in South Africa	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
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	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 role of AI in transforming healthcare in South Africa	2
Clinical practice	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	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
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, 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
Ivermectin drug induced liver injury	2
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	2
Health literacy on diabetes mellitus among a working population of Mthatha, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	2
The state of caesarean sections in South Africa: Challenges, unknowns and the way forward	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
Supporting doctors’ mental health: Exploring the utility of a life skills programme for interns in rural Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals	2
Community-based education: A strategy for training community-responsive health professionals	2
Improving access to suicide prevention services through the National Suicide Prevention Framework implementation: The community level evidence-based recommendations	2
A 5-year retrospective study to determine the spectrum of crescentic glomerulonephritis in three tertiary hospitals in Gauteng Province, South Africa	2
The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
The role of mental health in obesity management	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	2
Metabolic and bariatric surgery: Postoperative management	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	2
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	2
More than medicine: The Department of Family Medicine’s journey to embed care and learning in the heart of the community	2
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2
Distribution and demographics of critical care subspecialists for adult patients in South Africa	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2
Commercial products and programmes in obesity management	2
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	2
Specimen rejection in a high-throughput TB laboratory: A descriptive study	2
Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa: A policy analysis of consensus reform proposals	2
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	2
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	2
Persistent maternal tachycardia: A clinical alert for healthcare professionals providing maternity care in South Africa	2
Achieving community-oriented primary healthcare through collaborative learning: The KwaZulu-Natal Primary Health Care Transformation Committee	2
Why data is the most cost-effective investment for health technology assessment in South Africa	2
Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review	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 third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	2
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2

The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Issues in Medicine	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	2
When conflicting interests challenge relevance: History of the development of Public Health at Walter Sisulu University	2
Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	2
The mysterious joint: Septic arthritis and acute osteomyelitis due to Fusarium species in a child with type II Chiari malformation	2
Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent	2
Acute kidney injury after major non-cardiac surgery: Incidence and risk factors	2