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
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
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
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
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	6
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
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
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
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
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
Impact of COVID-19 on access to chronic kidney replacement therapy in the public sector of Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	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
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
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	3
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	3
Contents	3
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, South Africa	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
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, 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
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
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	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
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
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