SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Long-COVID: An evolving problem with an extensive impact	136
Impact of COVID-19 on routine primary healthcare services in South Africa	64
High HIV prevalence in an early cohort of hospital admissions with COVID-19 in Cape Town, South Africa	45
Mental health of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak: A rapid scoping review to inform provincial guidelines in South Africa	44
Child health services during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	35
COVID-19 lockdowns in low- and middle-income countries: Success against COVID-19 at the price of greater costs	32
The effect of lockdown on intentional and nonintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary report	31
Opportunities from a new disease for an old threat: Extending COVID-19 efforts to address tuberculosis in South Africa	28
Qualitative and quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in untreated wastewater in Western Cape Province, South Africa	28
Locked down: Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on trauma presentations to the emergency department	26
Tracking mortality in near to real time provides essential information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa in 2020	25
Trauma patterns during the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa expose vulnerability of women	24
Unnatural deaths, alcohol bans and curfews: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment during COVID-19	23
Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data	23
Clinical management of COVID-19: Experiences of the COVID-19 epidemic from Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa	23
South Africans’ understanding of and response to the COVID-19 outbreak: An online survey	22
COVID deaths in South Africa: 99 days since South Africa’s first death	20
Collateral damage of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exacerbation of Antimicrobial Resistance and Disruptions to Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes?	18
Primary healthcare workers at risk during COVID-19: An analysis of infections in HIV service providers in five districts of South Africa	17
The unanticipated costs of COVID-19 to South Africa’s quadruple disease burden	16
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 complex	16
A multisectoral investigation of a neonatal unit outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteraemia at a regional hospital in Gauteng Province, South Africa	16
Changes in surgical practice in 85 South African hospitals during COVID-19 hard lockdown	14
Epidemiology of human rabies in South Africa, 2008 - 2018	13
Maternal and neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 in a high-risk pregnant cohort with and without HIV	13

Implementing malaria control in South Africa, Eswatini and southern Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
The role of serological testing in the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak	12
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: A complex social phenomenon	12
Age discrimination in critical care triage in South Africa: The law and the allocation of scarce health resources in the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Prostate cancer age-standardised incidence increase between 2006 and 2016 in Gauteng Province, South Africa: A laboratory data-based analysis	12
The mechanics of setting up a COVID-19 response: Experiences of the COVID-19 epidemic from Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa	12
Effect of COVID-19 on HIV, tuberculosis, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV indicators in Mopani district, South Africa	12
Opportunistic pathogenic fungal co-infections are prevalent in critically ill COVID-19 patients: Are they risk factors for disease severity?	11
Trends in paediatric tuberculosis diagnoses in two South African hospitals early in the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The COVID-19 crisis in South Africa: Protecting the vulnerable	10
Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of uropathogens isolated from pregnant women in KwaZulu-Natal Province: 2011 - 2016	10
The effect of lockdown regulations on SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in Gauteng Province, South Africa	10
KN95 filtering facepiece respirators distributed in South Africa fail safety testing protocols	9
High prevalence of multimorbidity and non-communicable disease risk factors in South African adolescents and youth living with HIV: Implications for integrated prevention	9
Postmortem lung biopsies from four patients with COVID-19 at a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa	9
HIV care coverage among HIV-positive adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: Results from the HERStory Study	9
Non-vaccine serotype pneumococcal carriage in healthy infants in South Africa following introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine	9
Estimating the surgical backlog from the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa: A retrospective analysis of six government hospitals	9
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 Afr	9
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 strategies	8
Caesarean section rates in South Africa: A case study of the health systems challenges for the proposed National Health Insurance	8
Comparative strategic approaches to COVID-19 in Africa: Balancing public interest with civil liberties	8
Epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the current status	8
Two-year viral load suppression among adolescents receiving antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Metropole, South Africa, 2013 - 2015: A retrospective cohort analysis	8
COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign for healthcare workers in a low-resource setting: A clinician-driven initiative	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 university	8
The HIV cascade of care among serodiscordant couples in four high HIV prevalence settings in sub-Saharan Africa	8
Substance use and depressive and anxiety symptoms among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa	8
DIGITAL EYE SYNDROME – COVID 19 LOCKDOWN SIDE EFFECT?	8
Causative pathogens and antibiotic resistance in community-acquired urinary tract infections in central South Africa	8
South African health professionals’ state of well-being during the emergence of COVID-19	8
When do adolescent mothers return to school? Timing across rural and urban South Africa	7
Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease	7
Enterococcus faecalis ST21 harbouring Tn6009 isolated from a carriage sample in South Africa	7
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to alcohol use in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	7
Using ceftazidime-avibactam for persistent carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens infection highlights antimicrobial stewardship challenges with new beta-lactam-inhibitor combination antibiotics	7
The impact of COVID-19 on routine patient care from a laboratory perspective	7
Paraffin dangers, health and socioeconomic consequences: Urgent need for policy action	7
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-19	7
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adult COVID-19 patients	7
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 admissions	7
The impact of routine pulse oximetry use on outcomes in COVID-19-infected patients at increased risk of severe disease: A retrospective cohort analysis	7
Unspoken victims: A national study of male rape incidents and police investigations in South Africa	7
The readability of informed consent forms for research studies conducted in South Africa	7
Drastic reduction of orthopaedic services at an urban tertiary hospital in South Africa during COVID-19: Lessons for the future response to the pandemic	7
Prioritising action on diabetes during COVID-19	7
Barriers to adequate analgesia in paediatric burns patients	7
What did we learn from South Africa’s first-ever tuberculosis prevalence survey?	7
Sentinel seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Gauteng Province, South Africa, August - October 2020	7

Antimicrobial stewardship in the Western Cape: A situational analysis of existing facility-level initiatives	7
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	6
Introducing an Ethics Framework for health priority-setting in South Africa on the path to universal health coverage	6
Research imperialism resurfaces in South Africa in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – this time, via a digital portal	6
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 Africa	6
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to interpersonal violence in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	6
COVID-19 herd immunity v. learning to live with the virus	6
Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	6
Preparing healthcare facilities to operate safely and effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic: The missing piece in the puzzle	6
Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa guidelines for the training and credentialing in emergency point-of-care ultrasound	6
COVID-19 wave 4 in Western Cape Province, South Africa: Fewer hospitalisations, but new challenges for a depleted workforce	6
Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from the private healthcare sector in South Africa: A pilot study	6
The case for minimum unit prices on alcohol in South Africa	6
Nicotine dependence, socioeconomic status, lifestyle behaviours and lifetime quit attempts among adult smokers in South Africa	6
COVID-19 collateral damage: Alcohol rub dermatitis as an emerging problem	6
Antiretroviral therapy non-adherence among HIV-positive patients presenting to an emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa: Associations and reasons	6
Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer risk perception and vaccine acceptability among adolescent girls and young women in Durban, South Africa	6
Examining the reliability of ICD-10 discharge coding in Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital administrative database	6
Thoughts of self-harm in early and late pregnancy in urban South Africa: Investigating prevalence, predictors and screening options	5
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	5
Adolescent girls and young women: Policy-to-implementation gaps for addressing sexual and reproductive health needs in South Africa	5
Understanding the differential impacts of COVID-19 among hospitalised patients in South Africa for equitable response	5
COVID-19 in children: Should we be worried?	5
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 tuberculosis	5
South African healthcare workers and COVID-19: a shared responsibility to protect a precious and limited resource	5
Retain rural doctors: Burnout, depression and anxiety in medical doctors working in rural KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	5
Safety and efficacy of inclisiran in South African patients at high cardiovascular risk: A subanalysis of the ORION phase III clinical trials	5
Factors predicting 6-month retention among people with opioid use disorders accessing outpatient methadone maintenance therapy in Tshwane, South Africa	5
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in patients with bacteraemia at tertiary academic hospitals in South Africa, 2019 - 2020: An update	5
Financial burden of orthopaedic gunshot-related injury management at a major trauma centre	5
Managing the healthcare demand-supply gap during and after COVID-19: The need to review the approach to healthcare priority-setting in South Africa	5
Change in profile of COVID-19 deaths in Western Cape Province, South Africa, during the fourth wave	5
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	5
The effect of lockdown on intentional and nonintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary report	5
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: An update for the COVID-19 era	5
A total cost perspective of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in two South African medical schemes servicing the public healthcare sector	5
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	5
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	5
Metabolic alkalosis in hospitalised COVID-19 patients: A window to the pathogenesis?	5
The profile of patients presenting with intentional self-poisoning to the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital emergency department, South Africa	5
Overview	4
COVID-19 antibody testing: From hype to immunological reality	4
South Africa should be using all the COVID-19 vaccines available to it – urgently	4
Maximising health science student volunteers for the COVID-19 response: A valuable resource	4
Essential medicine selection during the COVID-19 pandemic: Enabling access in uncharted territory	4
Parental access to hospitalised children during infectious disease pandemics such as COVID-19	4
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution (ambient PM2.5 and ambient ozone) in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	4
Shortfall in stroke care: A study of ischaemic stroke care practices in a South African metropole	4
The economics of poisoning: The role of telemedicine and toxicovigilance	4
Targeting those left behind in Zimbabwe’s HIV response: A call for decriminalisation of key populations to rapidly achieve 95-95-95 targets	4
Effect of COVID-19 pandemic decisions on tertiary-level surgical services in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	4
The COVID-19 pandemic and traffic accidents	4
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to childhood stunting, wasting and underweight in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	4
Venous bicarbonate and creatine kinase as diagnostic and prognostic tools in the setting of acute traumatic rhabdomyolysis	4
Personal and occupational experiences of COVID-19 and their effects on South African health workers’ wellbeing	4
The next generation: Pregnancy in adolescents and women living with perinatally acquired HIV in South Africa	4
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	4
Dolutegravir drug-drug interactions	4
Adult pure red cell aplasia at Universitas Academic Hospital, Bloemfontein, South Africa: A 9-year review	4
Respiratory presentations to acute services at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	4
When culture, traditions and public health clash: A paradigm shift urgently needed to stem the spread of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe	4
COVID-19 in long-term care facilities in South Africa: No time for complacency	4
Critical care triage during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: A constitutional imperative!	4
Pharmacist-initiated antiretroviral therapy (PIMART)	4
The prevalence of pulmonary embolism in non-hospitalised de-isolated patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 disease	4
Preventable deaths among youth in South Africa: Measuring life expectancy in the absence of non-communicable diseases and its implications for the healthcare system	4
Smoking and drinking habits of women in subsequent pregnancies after specific advice about the dangers of these exposures during pregnancy	4
Blood shortage in COVID-19: A crisis within a crisis	4
A prospective clinical audit to evaluate postoperative quality of recovery in adults at New Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa	3
The role of treatment delays in surgical site infection after appendicectomy in a South African rural regional hospital	3
COVID-19 response in South African communities: Screening, testing, tracing and movement modelling	3
Meta-analytic magic, ivermectin, and socially responsible reporting	3
Loadshedding and Healthcare: Salt in The Wound?	3
Low mortality of people living with diabetes mellitus diagnosed with COVID-19 and managed at a field hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Colonoscopy practice in South Africa: The way forward	3
Sisonke phase 3B open-label study: Lessons learnt for national and global vaccination scale-up during epidemics	3
Soliciting parental consent among adolescent minor mothers: A barrier in adolescent HIV research?	3
A narrative review on spinal deformities in people with cerebral palsy: Measurement, norm values, incidence, risk factors and treatment	3
Establishing local reference intervals for full blood count and white blood cell differential counts in Cape Town, South Africa	3

Appropriateness of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans in a rural regional hospital in South Africa: A 6-year follow-up study	3
COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in South Africa: The added value of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2	3
WhatsApp-propriate? A retrospective content analysis of WhatsApp use and potential breaches in confidentiality among a team of doctors at a district hospital, South Africa	3
COVID-19 in pregnancy in South Africa: Tracking the epidemic and defining the natural history	3
Provision of long-term renal replacement therapy to non-national patients in South Africa	3
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	3
High virological failure rates in HIV-1 perinatally infected children in South Africa: A retrospective cohort study	3
Non-communicable disease comorbidities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	3
Metabolic syndrome at 6 weeks after delivery in a cohort of pre-eclamptic and normotensive women	3
COVID-19: Experience of a tertiary children’s hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Costing total hip arthroplasty in a South African state tertiary hospital	3
A prospective observational study of preoperative natriuretic peptide testing in adult non-cardiac surgical patients in hospitals in Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	3
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
Integrated, people-centred eye care: Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services	3
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease in tuberculosis-hyperendemic South Africa	3
Delirium in HIV-infected patients admitted to acute medical wards post universal access to antiretrovirals in South Africa	3
Driver intoxication and risk for fatal crashes in South Africa: A 3-year review	3
Undiagnosed comorbidities among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19 in South African public hospitals	3
Maintaining focus on administering effective malaria treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Recovery and transforming the South African health system	3
Obstructive jaundice: Studies on predictors of biliary infection and microbiological analysis in an HIV setting	3
Governing a pandemic: A case study of South Africa’s coordination and management structures used to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The burden of hypertension in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa: A 6-year perspective	3
Leveraging epidemiology as a decision support tool during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa	3
Evaluation of the national clinical sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: Analysis of provincial and district-level data	3
Bodies without names: A global challenge	3
Dangers of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol during pregnancy	3
Hospital-based evaluation of tuberculosis-exposed neonates: An approach to complement the South African national guidance	3
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 overdose	3
The Scientists’ Collective 10-point proposal for equitable and timeous access to COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa	3
A nurse-led intervention to improve management of virological failure in public sector HIV clinics in Durban, South Africa: A pre- and post-implementation evaluation	3
Genetic testing approaches for hereditary breast cancer: Perspectives from a private diagnostic laboratory	3
Telehealth opportunities for South Africa have been brought into focus by the COVID-19 pandemic	3
A natural history of efavirenz drug-induced liver injury	3
Going where the data are: Connecting to Trello for daily statistics in the COVID-19 era and beyond	3
Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy should not be discontinued in low- and middle-income countries	3
A prospective study of paediatric preoperative fasting times at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa	3
Child health services during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
Pharmacist-led medication therapy management of diabetes club patients at a primary healthcare clinic in Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective and prospective audit	3