SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Portal vein injury due to blunt abdominal trauma	36
A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community	28
One-year mortality after hospital admission as an indicator of palliative care need: A retrospective cohort study	17
Assessing South African medical interns’ experience and confidence in managing obstetric emergencies	16
Secondary health conditions in people with spinal cord injury in South Africa: Prevalence and associated factors	14
Using ceftazidime-avibactam for persistent carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens infection highlights antimicrobial stewardship challenges with new beta-lactam-inhibitor combination antibiotics	13
Discovering hypertriglyceridaemia	13
Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data	13
A national retrospective review of neonatal critical care transfers in dedicated critical care transport services in the private sector	12
CPD Questions	12
Healthcare Delivery	11
Facilitating remote access to specialist medical expertise through the scaled up adoption of a smartphone application: A South African case	11
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare	11
Antibiogram profiles and efficacy of antibiotic regimens of bacterial isolates from chronic osteomyelitis of the appendicular skeleton: A developing-world perspective	10
Medicine and the Law	10
Renoprotection in hypertension and diabetes – management problems lie ahead	10
Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast: A rare case from the Mankweng Hospital breast oncology clinic, Limpopo Province, South Africa	9
Prostate cancer perspective: Africa versus the world	9
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	9
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	9
Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response	9
Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 2)	9
Contents	8
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
New developments with the Health Promotion Levy in South Africa	7

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

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and missed vaccine roll- out targets: The case for using general practitioners	4
Evaluating the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an indicator for early referral of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia to a high-care facility	3
A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	3
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	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
Asthma in South African children: Guidelines, obstacles and solutions	3
Patterns of oxygen saturation in prolonged recovery from COVID-19 pneumonia	3
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, 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
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	3
Right of reply	3
CPD Questions	3
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	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
The impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from the private healthcare sector in South Africa: A pilot study	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	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
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
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
Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	3
Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa	3
Nephrolithiasis (parts 1 and 2)	3
Contents	3
Correspondence and reply	3
Impact of COVID-19 on access to chronic kidney replacement therapy in the public sector of Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Michael Charles Kew	3
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	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
Monkeypox in South Africa: The need for responsible messaging to avoid stigmatising the LGBTI community	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
Obstructive jaundice: Studies on predictors of biliary infection and microbiological analysis in an HIV setting	3
A total cost perspective of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in two South African medical schemes servicing the public healthcare sector	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	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
The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update	2
Elderly, vulnerable and forgotten	2
Childhood asthma: A best-practice strategy for the diagnosis and assessment of control in South Africa	2
Retain rural doctors: Burnout, depression and anxiety in medical doctors working in rural KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Audit of surgical specialty patients and beds at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa in 2021	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	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
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2
Ivermectin drug induced liver injury	2
POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe	2
Telehealth opportunities for South Africa have been brought into focus by the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	2
Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	2
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	2
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2
Issues in Medicine	2
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	2
Clinical practice	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
Respiratory presentations to acute services at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	2
Improving access to suicide prevention services through the National Suicide Prevention Framework implementation: The community level evidence-based recommendations	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	2
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, 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
Specimen rejection in a high-throughput TB laboratory: A descriptive study	2
‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
Patterns of disease on admission to children’s wards and changes during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding in a young man recovering from traumatic pneumothorax	2
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	2

A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals	2
Gaucher disease: A cause of massive splenomegaly in a 15-year-old black African male	2
Stroke: A retrospective review of the incidence and epidemiology in a South African academic hospital emergency department	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
Acute kidney injury after major non-cardiac surgery: Incidence and risk factors	2
Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent	2
Persistent maternal tachycardia: A clinical alert for healthcare professionals providing maternity care in South Africa	2
Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion in South Africa	2
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	2