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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 531-532 |
Guest Editorial
| Health financing lessons from Thailand for South Africa on the path towards universal health coverage | |
| Mark Blecher, Anban Pillay, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Warisa Panichkriangkrai, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Yot Teerawattananon, Supasit Pannarunothai, Jonatan Davén | 533-534 |
Correspondence
| Essential skills for rural surgery | |
| Ronald Ferguson Ingle | 535 |
| Medical malpractice crisis deepens: New approach | |
| Chris Archer | 536 |
| HIV/AIDS: Emerging threat to cardiovascular health in sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Hans Strijdom, Patrick De Boever, Tim Nawrot, Nandu Goswami | 537 |
| Occupational health and safety and the National Public Health Institute of South Africa: Deliberations from a national consultative meeting | |
| Jonathan Elliot Myers, Leslie London, Cas Badenshorst, Meshack Bida, Sydney Carstens, Kim Davies, Frank Fox, Francis Hyera, Mohamed Jeebhay, Rajen N Naidoo, Gavin Reagon, Andre Rose, Belinda Walters-Girout, Kuku Voyi, Ziyanda Vundle, Laetitia Rispel | 538-539 |
Izindaba
| Quality of care responsible for soaring maternal deaths – report | |
| 540-541 |
| Occupational injuries – radiologists lose patience, sue government | |
| 542 |
| Newer drugs keep multiple sclerosis patients out of wheelchairs – expert | |
| 543 |
Editorial
| Gun control saves lives | |
| Richard Matzopoulos | 544 |
| Comment on the Central Drug Authority’s position statement on cannabis | |
| Keith Scott | 545-546 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Mental health of and substance use by adolescents | |
| Quarraisha Abdool Karim | 547 |
| Update on adolescent mental health | |
| Saeeda Paruk, Enver Karim | 548-550 |
| Addressing adolescent alcohol use in South Africa | |
| Neo K Morojele, Leane Ramsoomar | 551-553 |
In Practice
| The role of appropriate diagnostic testing in acute respiratory tract infections: An antibiotic stewardship strategy to minimise diagnostic uncertainty in primary care | |
| Adrian John Brink, Johan van Wyk, V M Moodley, Craig Corcoran, Pieter Ekermans, Louise Nutt, Tom Boyles, Olga Perovic, Charles Feldman, Guy Richards, Marc Mendelson | 554-561 |
| Emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus at a tertiary paediatric hospital in South Africa | |
| Harsha Lochan, Clinton Moodley, Diane Rip, Colleen Bamford, Marc Hendricks, Alan Davidson, Brian Eley | 562-566 |
| Heavy alcohol use in patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy: What responses are needed? | |
| Charles David Parry, Connie Kekwaletswe, Paul A Shuper, Sebenzile Nkosi, Bronwyn J Myers, Neo K Morojele | 567-568 |
| Position statement on cannabis | |
| Dan Joseph Stein, for the Executive Committee of the Central Drug Authority | 569-570 |
| Complex adaptive HIV/AIDS risk reduction: Plausible implications from findings in Limpopo Province, South Africa | |
| Chris J Burman, Marota A Aphane | 571-574 |
| When are doctors legally obliged to stop and render assistance to injured persons at road accidents? | |
| David Jan McQuoid-Mason | 575-577 |
| Managing the remains of fetuses and abandoned infants: A call to urgently review South African law and medicolegal practice | |
| Lorraine du Toit-Prinsloo, Camilla Pickles, Gert Saayman | 578-581 |
| A case of biventricular endomyocardial fibrosis complicated by right ventricular outflow tract aneurysms | |
| Ricardo Gonçalves, Ruchika Meel | 582-584 |
| Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in the presence of connective tissue disease and HIV infection: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in a resource- constrained setting | |
| Rubeshan Perumal, Johannes Andries Marais, Susan Brown | 585-588 |
Research
| Where have all the gun deaths gone? | |
| Richard Matzopoulos, Pamela Groenewald, Naeemah Abrahams, Debbie Bradshaw | 589-591 |
| A meta-analysis of the efficacy of preoperative surgical safety checklists to improve perioperative outcomes | |
| Bruce M Biccard, Reitze Rodseth, Larissa Cronje, Peter Agaba, Edson Chikumba, Leon du Toit, Zane Farina, Stephanie Fischer, P Dean Gopalan, Komalan Govender, Jayd Kanjee, Aidan Kingwill, Farai Madzimbamuto, Doreen Mashava, Busisiwe Mrara, Magesvaran Mudely, Ezile Ninise, Justiaan Swanevelder, Agnes Wabule | 592-597 |
| Screening for retinopathy of prematurity in a provincial hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa | |
| Mark Roland Jacoby, Linett du Toit | 598-601 |
| Retinopathy of prematurity screening criteria and workload implications at Tygerberg Children’s Hospital, South Africa: A cross-sectional study | |
| Elsime Visser Kift, Nicola Freeman, Colin Cook, Landon Myer | 602-606 |
| An overview of cancer research in South African academic and research institutions, 2013 - 2014 | |
| Jennifer Moodley, D Cristina Stefan, Vikash Sewram, Paul Ruff, Melvyn Freeman, Kwanele Asante-Shongwe | 607-610 |
| HAART in hand: The change in Kaposi’s sarcoma presentation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
| Levashni Naidoo, Judith S Jacobson, Alfred I Neugut, Ncoza C Dlova, Anisa Mosam | 611-616 |
| Oncogenic and incidental HPV types associated with histologically confirmed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in HIV-positive and HIV-negative South African women | |
| Matthys Cornelis van Aardt, Greta Dreyer, Leon Cornelius Snyman, Karin Louise Richter, Piet Becker, Sebolelo Mpho Mojaki | 617-622 |
| Clinical findings and genetic screening for copy number variation mutations in a cohort of South African patients with Parkinson’s disease | |
| Anna Cecelia Mahne, Jonathan A Carr, Soraya Bardien, Clara Maria Schutte | 623-625 |
| Delay and poor diagnosis of Down syndrome in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A retrospective review of postnatal cytogenetic testing | |
| Mark Willoughby, Colleen Aldous, Mark Patrick, Shelagh Kavonic, Arnold Christianson | 626-629 |
| Psoriatic arthritis: An assessment of clinical, biochemical and radiological features in a single-centre South African cohort | |
| Ajesh Basantharan Maharaj, Michelle Rajkaran, Jayandran Govender, Kasthurba Maharaj, Niek de Vries, Paul-Peter Tak | 630-633 |
| Hepatitis B infection in HIV-1-infected patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy in Lomé, Togo: Prevalence and molecular consequences | |
| Akouda Patassi, Sihem Benaboud, Dadja Essoya Landoh, M Salou, Anoumou Claver Dagnra, Bayaki Saka, Anne Krivine, Jean-François Meritet, Palokinam Pitché, Dominique Salmon-Ceron | 634-639 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |