Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
268-269 |
From the Editor
Screening – benefits or harms? | PDF HTML |
Bridget Farham | 270-271 |
Editor's choice
Editor's Choice | PDF HTML |
Janet Seggie | 271-272 |
Correspondence
An adapted triage tool (ETAT) at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital Medical Emergency Unit, Cape Town, South Africa: An evaluation | PDF HTML |
Anthony Thomas Westwood, Heloise Buys, Baljit Cheema | 273 |
Triage - keep it simple, swift, safe and scientific | PDF HTML |
Michele Twomey, Heather Tuffin, Lee A Wallis | 273 |
Artesunate v. quinine for severe malaria | PDF HTML |
Poobalan Naidoo, S Saman | 274 |
Asthma guidelines: Why aminophylline? | PDF HTML |
Lee A Wallis, Melanie Stander | 274 |
Late termination of pregnancy: Maternal counselling and fetal rights | PDF HTML |
Jonathan Victor Larsen, reply by L Govender, J Moodley | 274-275 |
Izindaba
Autism – mitigating a global epidemic | PDF HTML |
276-278 |
Whistle blast on private healthcare’s ‘zero sum game’ | PDF HTML |
278-279 |
‘Jack-knife’ scrum victim; 8 years on, no payout | PDF HTML |
279-281 |
Karabus' ‘Argo moment’ a long time coming | PDF UPDATE HTML |
281-282 |
Forum
Is the mass circumcision drive in KwaZulu-Natal involving neonates and children less than 16 years of age legal? What should doctors do? | PDF HTML |
David Jan McQuoid-Mason | 283-284 |
Private theatre utilisation in South Africa: A case study | PDF HTML |
Dieter Hartmann, Bernadette Sunjka | 285-287 |
Editorial
Toxicovigilance: Experience of the Tygerberg Poison Information Centre in context | PDF HTML |
Gerhard H Verdoorn | 288-289 |
Screening for chronic diseases in South Africa | PDF HTML |
Robert Fryatt | 289 |
Paradigm shift needed for cervical cancer: HPV infection is the real epidemic | PDF HTML |
Karin Richter, Greta Dreyer | 290-292 |
Research
Toxicovigilance I: A survey of acute poisoning in South Africa based on Tygerberg Poison Information Centre data | PDF HTML |
Denise Joy H Veale, Cherylynn Angela Wium, Gert Jacobus Müller | 293-297 |
Toxicovigilance II: A survey of the spectrum of acute poisoning and current practices in the initial management of poisoning cases admitted to South African hospitals | PDF HTML |
Denise Joy H Veale, Cherylynn Angela Wium, Gert Jacobus Müller | 298-303 |
Vital signs for children at triage: A multicentre validation of the revised South African Triage Scale (SATS) for children | PDF HTML APPENDIX |
Michèle Twomey, Baljit Cheema, Heloise Buys, Kirsten Cohen, Angela de Sá, Pauline Louw, Majedah Ismail, Heather Finlayson, Charmaine Cunningham, Anthony Westwood | 304-308 |
Provincial screening rates for chronic diseases of lifestyle, cancers and HIV in a health-insured population | PDF HTML |
Leegale Adonis, Ruopeng An, John Luiz, Ateev Mehrotra, Deepak Patel, Debashish Basu, Roland Sturm | 309-312 |
Age-specific prevalence of cervical human papillomavirus infection and cytological abnormalities in women in Gauteng Province | PDF HTML |
Karin Richter, P Becker, A Horton, G Dreyer | 313-317 |
High uptake of Gardasil vaccine among 9 - 12-year-old schoolgirls participating in an HPV vaccination demonstration project in KwaZulu-Natal Province | PDF HTML |
Indres Moodley, V Mubaiwa, N Tathiah, L Denny | 318-321 |
Risk of nevirapine-associated Stevens-Johnson syndrome among HIV-infected pregnant women: The Medunsa National Pharmacovigilance Centre, 2007 - 2012 | PDF HTML |
Nomathemba Dube, E Adewusi, R Summers | 322-325 |
Bone marrow morphological features and diagnostic value in paediatric disseminated tuberculosis in the setting of increased HIV prevalence | PDF HTML |
Ravnit Grewal, Akinola Emmanuel Abayomi | 326-329 |
Hepatitis B virus in HIV-infected patients in north-eastern South Africa: Prevalence, exposure, protection and response to HAART | PDF HTML |
Julius Ayuk, Jeffrey Mphahlele, Pascal Bessong | 330-333 |
Guidelines
South African guideline for the management of chronic hepatitis B: 2013 | PDF HTML |
C W N Spearman, Mark W Sonderup, J F Botha, S W van der Merwe, E Song, C Kassianides, K A Newton, H N Hairwadzi | 335-349 |
CPD
CPD Questionnaire | |