SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Using ceftazidime-avibactam for persistent carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens infection highlights antimicrobial stewardship challenges with new beta-lactam-inhibitor combination antibiotics	86
Portal vein injury due to blunt abdominal trauma	34
A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community	29
Assessing South African medical interns’ experience and confidence in managing obstetric emergencies	28
One-year mortality after hospital admission as an indicator of palliative care need: A retrospective cohort study	17
Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data	14
Secondary health conditions in people with spinal cord injury in South Africa: Prevalence and associated factors	13
Medicine and the Law	13
Discovering hypertriglyceridaemia	12
Antibiogram profiles and efficacy of antibiotic regimens of bacterial isolates from chronic osteomyelitis of the appendicular skeleton: A developing-world perspective	12
A national retrospective review of neonatal critical care transfers in dedicated critical care transport services in the private sector	12
Healthcare Delivery	11
CPD Questions	11
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	10
Stimulant use among prehospital emergency care personnel in Gauteng Province, South Africa	9
Prostate cancer perspective: Africa versus the world	9
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	9
Facilitating remote access to specialist medical expertise through the scaled up adoption of a smartphone application: A South African case	9
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare	9
Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 2)	9
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	8
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast: A rare case from the Mankweng Hospital breast oncology clinic, Limpopo Province, South Africa	8
Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response	8
Renoprotection in hypertension and diabetes – management problems lie ahead	8

Contents	7
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	7
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	7
Evaluation of the national clinical sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: Analysis of provincial and district-level data	7
Another pandemic in the making	7
Ronald Ellis 'Ronnie' Kottler	7
Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriage in school children from Cape Town: A cross- sectional study and systematic review	7
Pharmacist-initiated antiretroviral therapy (PIMART)	7
New developments with the Health Promotion Levy in South Africa	7
Profile of patients seen at Pietersburg and Mankweng breast cancer clinics in Limpopo	6
Thalassaemia (part 1)	6
Hydatid brain cyst: A delayed diagnosis in a rural setting during COVID-19	6
Trisomy 21 screening with αlpha software and the Fetal Medicine Foundation algorithm	6
Predictors of mortality in acute hospitalised COVID-19 pneumonia patients: A retrospective cohort study at two tertiary-level hospitals in Zambia	6
Comment on ‘Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis’	6
Erratum	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
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	6
Optimising blood cultures: The interplay between diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship	6
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	6
Death trends for 2010 - 2022 for members of a large private medical scheme in South Africa	6
Predictors of unfavourable tuberculosis treatment outcome in Bilene District, Gaza Province, Mozambique: A retrospective analysis, 2016 - 2019	6
Ensuring access to palliative care for cervical cancer patients	5
South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination	5
COVID-19 wave 4 in Western Cape Province, South Africa: Fewer hospitalisations, but new challenges for a depleted workforce	5
Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy should not be discontinued in low- and middle-income countries	5
Adam Omar	5
An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement	5
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans.	5
Impact of a multidisciplinary approach to ultrasound- guided thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective audit	5
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	5
Medicine and the Law	5
Erratum	5
Underdiagnosis of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in South Africa	5
The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis	5
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	5
Retraction:	4
Foreword: Preparedness and response to SARS-CoV-2 in 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
Exploring a community’s understanding of HIV vaccine‑induced seropositivity in a South African research setting	4
Advanced breast cancer in a case of Down syndrome: Presenting a rare occurrence from Mankweng Hospital breast oncology clinic, Limpopo Province, South Africa	4
Medicine and the Law	4
Recurrent venous thrombosis – an unusual first presentation of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 3B	4
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and missed vaccine roll- out targets: The case for using general practitioners	4
Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa	4
The HIV cascade of care among serodiscordant couples in four high HIV prevalence settings in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Case Report	4
Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a rural area in South Africa	4
The right to access healthcare: Progressive realisation or regressive denial?	4

Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	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
Maternal mental health and caregiver competence of HIV-positive and negative women caring for their singleton newborns in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	4
Early online	4
District Health System performance in South Africa: Are current monitoring systems optimal?	4
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from the private healthcare sector in South Africa: A pilot study	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
A natural history of efavirenz drug-induced liver injury	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	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
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	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
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	3
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
A total cost perspective of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in two South African medical schemes servicing the public healthcare sector	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
Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa guidelines for the training and credentialing in emergency point-of-care ultrasound	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	3
Michael Charles Kew	3
Nephrolithiasis (parts 1 and 2)	3
Obstructive jaundice: Studies on predictors of biliary infection and microbiological analysis in an HIV setting	3
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	3
Patterns of oxygen saturation in prolonged recovery from COVID-19 pneumonia	3
Impact of COVID-19 on access to chronic kidney replacement therapy in the public sector of Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Refusal for religious reasons of a blood transfusion for her husband by wife as legal proxy ignored by the doctors – can the wife claim damages?	3
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa	3
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Contents	3
Right of reply	3
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	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
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
CPD Questions	3
Issues in Medicine	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	2
Retain rural doctors: Burnout, depression and anxiety in medical doctors working in rural KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update	2
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	2
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding in a young man recovering from traumatic pneumothorax	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
Correspondence and reply	2
Antimicrobial prescribing in the surgical and medical wards at a private hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2019	2
Asthma in South African children: Guidelines, obstacles and solutions	2
POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe	2
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	2
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	2
Elderly, vulnerable and forgotten	2
Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?	2
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2
Stroke: A retrospective review of the incidence and epidemiology in a South African academic hospital emergency department	2
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	2
Evaluating the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an indicator for early referral of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia to a high-care facility	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	2
COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign for healthcare workers in a low-resource setting: A clinician-driven initiative	2
Patterns of disease on admission to children’s wards and changes during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
Gaucher disease: A cause of massive splenomegaly in a 15-year-old black African male	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2
‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
Improving access to suicide prevention services through the National Suicide Prevention Framework implementation: The community level evidence-based recommendations	2
Ivermectin drug induced liver injury	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
Audit of surgical specialty patients and beds at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa in 2021	2
Persistent maternal tachycardia: A clinical alert for healthcare professionals providing maternity care in South Africa	2
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2
A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals	2
Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	2
Childhood asthma: A best-practice strategy for the diagnosis and assessment of control in South Africa	2
The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2

A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	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 impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	2
Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	2
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	2
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, South Africa	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	2
Specimen rejection in a high-throughput TB laboratory: A descriptive study	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	2
Outcomes of patients with COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring invasive mechanical ventilation admitted to an intensive care unit in South Africa	2
Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion in South Africa	2