Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
789-790 |
Guest Editorial
The prevalence of child sexual abuse in South Africa: The Optimus Study South Africa | |
L Artz, C L Ward, L Leoschut, R Kassanjee, P Burton | 791-792 |
Correspondence
Role of procalcitonin in paediatric burn wound sepsis | |
R Martinez, H Rode | 793-794 |
Child mortality in South Africa: Is the Sustainable Development Goal (3.2) target achievable with current efforts? | |
T Doherty, M Kroon, N Rhoda, D Sanders | 795 |
Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli harbouring mcr-1 gene isolated from pigs in South Africa | |
L L Founou, R C Founou, M Allam, A Ismail, S Y Essack | 796-797 |
Book reviews
Medical Malpractice in South Africa. By John Saner. Durban: LexisNexis South Africa, 2018. ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-639-00145-6 | |
Y Guidozzi | 798 |
Obituaries
Andrew Burger Murray | |
A Davison | 799 |
Editorial
Developing an advocacy agenda for increasing access to opioid substitution therapy as part of comprehensive services for people who use drugs in South Africa | |
A Scheibe, M Marks, S Shelly, T Gerardy, A K Domingo, J Hugo | 800-802 |
Towards timely diagnosis of symptomatic breast and cervical cancer in South Africa | |
J Moodley, F M Walter, S E Scott, A M Mwaka | 803-804 |
Use of the consent provisions of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act for live births by caesarean section when unable to follow the procedures in the Children’s Act | |
D J McQuoid-Mason | 805 |
Continuing Medical Education
‘Red flags’ in pregnancy: Reducing maternal mortality through assessment of maternal deaths | |
J Moodley | 806 |
Acute severe headaches in pregnancy are a ‘red flag’: A review based on case reports and key messages for healthcare practioneers | |
J Moodley, N Mayat, N Moran | 807-808 |
Spontaneous liver haematoma rupture associated with pre-eclampsia in a low- to middle-income country: Lessons to be learnt from maternal death assessments | |
J Moodley, N C Ngene | 809-812 |
In Practice
Mortality analysis of people with severe mental illness transferred from long-stay hospital to alternative care in the Life Esidimeni tragedy | |
L J Robertson, M W Makgoba | 813-817 |
Neonatal listeriosis during a countrywide epidemic in South Africa: A tertiary hospital’s experience | |
A Dramowski, L G Lloyd, A Bekker, S Holgate, M Aucamp, K Reddy, H Finlayson | 818-827 |
Research ethics committees in a tight spot: Approving consent strategies for child research that are prima facie illegal but are ethical in terms of national guidelines | |
A E Strode, P P Singh, C M Slack, D R Wassenaar | 828-832 |
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis flare due to rice bodies in the knee of a 10-year-old girl | |
G Faller, M Haagensen, M Barrow | 833-835 |
Research
Appendicectomy in private practice in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa | |
R P Mills, D L Clarke, V Y Kong | 836-838 |
Preoperative anaemia and clinical outcomes in the South African Surgical Outcomes Study | |
D Marsicano, N Hauser, F Roodt, E Cloete, W Conradie, V Morford, D Nel, D G Bishop, T E Madiba, B M Biccard; on behalf of the South African Surgical Outcomes Study investigators | 839-846 |
Preoperative serum sodium measurements and postoperative inpatient mortality: A case-control analysis of data from the South African Surgical Outcomes Study | |
M Ramburuth, Y Moodley, P D Gopalan | 847-851 |
‘Going the extra mile’: Supervisors’ perspectives on what makes a ‘good’ intern | |
M de Villiers, B van Heerden, S van Schalkwyk | 852-857 |
Retrospective case-series analysis of haematological malignancies in goldmining areas of South Africa | |
T Inamasu, M Patel, C Espina, A Pentz, M Joffe, F Winde, J Schüz | 858-864 |
Is the intravenous giving set a reliable alternative to the spinal manometer in measuring cerebrospinal fluid opening pressure? | |
T A Mogambery, A Moodley, C Connolly | 865-869 |
Can routine inpatient mortality data improve HIV mortality estimates? Inpatient mortality at an urban hospital in South Africa | |
L C Long, D Evans, S Rosen, C Sauls, A T Brennan, I M Sanne, M P Fox | 870-875 |
The demographic and clinical profiles of women presenting with vaginal discharge syndrome at primary care facilities in South Africa: Associations with age and implications for management | |
T Kufa, L Gumede, D V Maseko, F Radebe, R Kularatne | 876-880 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |