SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Portal vein injury due to blunt abdominal trauma	41
Bridging the gap in rural and underserved areas through AI‐enabled solutions	18
One-year mortality after hospital admission as an indicator of palliative care need: A retrospective cohort study	16
Assessing South African medical interns’ experience and confidence in managing obstetric emergencies	15
Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data	14
CPD Questions	13
A national retrospective review of neonatal critical care transfers in dedicated critical care transport services in the private sector	13
Healthcare Delivery	13
Secondary health conditions in people with spinal cord injury in South Africa: Prevalence and associated factors	13
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare	12
Facilitating remote access to specialist medical expertise through the scaled up adoption of a smartphone application: A South African case	12
The National Health Insurance Act: Possible private health funding reform scenarios	11
Renoprotection in hypertension and diabetes – management problems lie ahead	11
Medicine and the Law	10
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	10
Prostate cancer perspective: Africa versus the world	9
Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 2)	9
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	9
Pharmacist-initiated antiretroviral therapy (PIMART)	8
Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response	8
Contents	8
Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast: A rare case from the Mankweng Hospital breast oncology clinic, Limpopo Province, South Africa	8
Evaluation of the national clinical sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: Analysis of provincial and district-level data	8
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriage in school children from Cape Town: A cross- sectional study and systematic review	7

New developments with the Health Promotion Levy in South Africa	7
Hydatid brain cyst: A delayed diagnosis in a rural setting during COVID-19	7
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	7
Response to the letter by the National Department of Health regarding ‘Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa’	7
Ronald Ellis 'Ronnie' Kottler	7
Intravenous antibiotic use in a private mining hospital in North West Province, South Africa	7
Another pandemic in the making	7
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	7
Erratum	7
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	6
Profile of patients seen at Pietersburg and Mankweng breast cancer clinics in Limpopo	6
Trisomy 21 screening with αlpha software and the Fetal Medicine Foundation algorithm	6
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	6
Leveraging epidemiology as a decision support tool during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa	6
Death trends for 2010 - 2022 for members of a large private medical scheme in South Africa	6
Pregnant patients with severe headaches – don’t forget brain tumours!	6
Predictors of unfavourable tuberculosis treatment outcome in Bilene District, Gaza Province, Mozambique: A retrospective analysis, 2016 - 2019	6
Optimising blood cultures: The interplay between diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship	6
Comment on ‘Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis’	6
The assessment of preventive measures in infants admitted with acute diarrhoeal disease to Pelonomi Tertiary Hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa	6
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	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	5
Erratum	5
COVID-19 wave 4 in Western Cape Province, South Africa: Fewer hospitalisations, but new challenges for a depleted workforce	5
Response to letter regarding ‘Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations’	5
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	5
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	5
South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination	5
Predictors of mortality in acute hospitalised COVID-19 pneumonia patients: A retrospective cohort study at two tertiary-level hospitals in Zambia	5
Maternal mental health and caregiver competence of HIV-positive and negative women caring for their singleton newborns in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	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
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
Medicine and the Law	5
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans.	5
Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy should not be discontinued in low- and middle-income countries	5
Underdiagnosis of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in South Africa	5
Neck dissection for advanced laryngeal cancer: Role and relevance in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	5
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
Medicine and the Law	4
The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis	4
Early online	4
Retraction:	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
Ensuring access to palliative care for cervical cancer patients	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
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
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and missed vaccine roll- out targets: The case for using general practitioners	4

An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement	4
Case Report	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
A natural history of efavirenz drug-induced liver injury	3
Monkeypox in South Africa: The need for responsible messaging to avoid stigmatising the LGBTI community	3
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	3
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	3
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	3
Nocardia species epidemiology and susceptibility profiles from 2019 to 2022 in South Africa	3
Right of reply	3
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	3
District Health System performance in South Africa: Are current monitoring systems optimal?	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
Nephrolithiasis (parts 1 and 2)	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
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	3
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Contents	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
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
Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	3
Recurrent venous thrombosis – an unusual first presentation of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 3B	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
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
Impact of COVID-19 on access to chronic kidney replacement therapy in the public sector of Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, 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
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
Michael Charles Kew	3
Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa	3
Perspectives of doctors, nurses and rehabilitation therapists in Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces’ public hospitals on remunerative work outside of the public service	3
POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	2
A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals	2
Audit of surgical specialty patients and beds at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa in 2021	2
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	2
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
Clinical practice	2
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding in a young man recovering from traumatic pneumothorax	2
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	2
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	2
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, South Africa	2
Improving access to suicide prevention services through the National Suicide Prevention Framework implementation: The community level evidence-based recommendations	2
Gaucher disease: A cause of massive splenomegaly in a 15-year-old black African male	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
‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
Case report: First reported case of spondylodiscitis caused by Gemella morbillorum in South Africa	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	2
Issues in Medicine	2
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	2
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2
Correspondence and reply	2
The role of AI in transforming healthcare in South Africa	2
Stroke: A retrospective review of the incidence and epidemiology in a South African academic hospital emergency department	2
Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	2
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	2
A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	2
Achieving universal healthcare access in South Africa: A policy analysis of consensus reform proposals	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2
Persistent maternal tachycardia: A clinical alert for healthcare professionals providing maternity care in 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
Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?	2
Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent	2
Ivermectin drug induced liver injury	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	2
The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update	2
Retain rural doctors: Burnout, depression and anxiety in medical doctors working in rural KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from the private healthcare sector in South Africa: A pilot study	2
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2

The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review	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
Designing a universal electronic health record system: Creating a reliable national health database for AI and its application in healthcare in South Africa	2
Patterns of disease on admission to children’s wards and changes during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
The impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Telehealth opportunities for South Africa have been brought into focus by the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Case Report	1
Surgical training and capacity development in the South African internship programme	1
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the use of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs	1
Ritshidze’s community-led monitoring system as a source of information on health system responsiveness in South Africa	1
Laparoscopic repair of pericardio-diaphragmatic rupture: A case report	1
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	1
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Diagnosis and presenting features of autoimmune hepatitis at a central referral hospital in South Africa	1
Children have been left behind during the HIV 90-90-90 strategy implementation in South Africa	1
Hypertriglyceridaemia in adolescents may have serious complications	1
Cerebral palsy and its medicolegal implications in low- resource settings – the need to establish causality and revise criteria to implicate intrapartum hypoxia: A narrative review	1
Audit of surgical procedures in regional and central hospitals in Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
A critical analysis of adult platelet product utilisation in South Africa, 2014 - 2021	1
A tale of two kidneys, and the case for machine perfusion in South Africa	1
Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations	1
Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion: A South African experience	1
Heart groups in South Africa advocate for tighter LDL-C control and lipoprotein(a) testing to curb atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	1
Effective cannabis testing protocols for workplace safety in South Africa post legalisation: Navigating the new normal	1
Sharp increase in influenza A infections in Limpopo: A call for increased influenza vaccinations	1
Medicine and the Law	1
Nephrolithiasis (part 2): Diagnosis, management and prevention of recurrent nephrolithiasis	1
Can inflammatory bowel disease be treated with diet?	1
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
The paediatric liver transplant experience in Johannesburg, South Africa: A broad overview and update	1
Thesigamoney Reddy	1
Non-fatal injuries among boys and girls presenting to Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town	1
Improving health outcomes and quality at the subdistrict level: Evaluation of the ‘3 feet model’ in Waterberg District, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
The role of new hepatitis B vaccines in South Africa	1
The prevalence of coeliac disease-associated human leukocyte antigens in South African transplant donors and recipients	1
Diabetes in the public healthcare sector of four South African provinces: A comparative analysis	1
Determination of anti-COVID-19 IgG and IgM seroprevalence among pregnant women at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Optimising insulin use in people living with type 2 diabetes at primary healthcare facilities: The Tshwane Insulin Project	1
http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13517	1
The importance of including manner of (injury) death on the death notification form	1
Specimen rejection in a high-throughput TB laboratory: A descriptive study	1
The clinical utility of tissue polymerase chain reaction, tissue culture and tissue histology in blood culture-negative infective endocarditis in South Africa – insights from the Groote Schuur Hospita	1
Maternal and neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 in a high-risk pregnant cohort with and without HIV	1
Perinatal outcome of maternal deaths at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2014 - June 2019	1
A case for re-establishment of cardiac surgery at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, South Africa	1
Bleeding and thrombosis outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients on low-molecular-weight heparin and antiplatelet therapy	1
Treating urinary tract infections in public sector primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa: A pharmaceutical perspective	1
COVID-19 in the South African Medical Journal	1
The rights of graduate medical practitioners and reforming community service non-placements	1
Lower respiratory tract infection admissions and deaths among children under 5 years in public sector facilities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (20	1
Introduction to the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines	1
First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa	1
Pandemic politics	1
In defence of South Africa’s National Health Research Ethics Council guidelines on heritable human genome editing	1
Robotic-assisted primary malignant bone tumour resection: A necessity for orthopaedic tumour surgeons in the developing world	1
Missed traumatic diaphragmatic hernia and literature review	1
The Second Comparative Risk Assessment for South Africa: A call to action for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention	1
Pharmacist-led medication therapy management of diabetes club patients at a primary healthcare clinic in Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective and prospective audit	1
Implementing E-MOTIVE for detection and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage in South Africa	1
Training, guideline access and knowledge of antiretroviral interactions: Is the South African private sector being left behind?	1
CPD Questions	1
Pandemic escape plan: Discontinuing policies that have reached their expiry date	1
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in cancers	1
A national retrospective descriptive analysis of critical care transfers in the private sector in South Africa	1
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	1
Blood product utilisation for coronary artery bypass graft surgery at a public and a private hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa	1
Characteristics, clinical manifestations and management of leprosy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A 20-year retrospective study	1
Acute kidney injury after major non-cardiac surgery: Incidence and risk factors	1
Change in profile of COVID-19 deaths in Western Cape Province, South Africa, during the fourth wave	1
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	1
Long-stay medical-surgical intensive care unit patients in South Africa: Quality of life and mortality 1 year after discharge	1
Secondary polycythaemia with elevated carbon monoxide levels due to hookah pipe smoking: A public health concern.	1
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	1
A brief overview of the past, present, and future of the Department of General Surgery at Pietersburg and Mankweng hospitals in Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Call for the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority to revisit regulations relating to single- use medical devices	1
The impact of COVID-19 on patients affected by rare diseases and congenital disorders in South Africa: A scoping review	1
The South African Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines	1
Guest editorial:	1
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	1
Introducing the South African Rare Diseases Access Initiative	1
Liberalising cannabis legislation in South Africa: Potential public health consequences for adolescents and pregnant women	1
Respiratory presentations to acute services at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	1
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risk in the School Environment: a pilot case-ascertained prospective study to inform future school-based surveillance.	1
Public health sector capacity and resilience building in Zimbabwe: An urgent priority as further waves of COVID-19 are imminent	1
Response to ‘An open letter: In solidarity with all children suffering in wars; to all who hold or share a concern for the wellbeing of children’	1
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetables in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Clinical course, management and outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV-infected renal transplant recipients: A case series	1
Have we forgotten about HIV?	1
Integrated, people-centred eye care: Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services	1
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among healthcare workers in the Ekurhuleni District, South Africa	1
Placental histopathology, maternal characteristics and neonatal outcome in cases of preterm birth in a high-risk population in South Africa	1
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	1