Table of Contents
Contents
Contents | |
689-690 |
From the Editor
Elderly, vulnerable and forgotten | |
B Farham | 691 |
Correspondence
A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community | |
W Jassat, Z Brey, S Parker, M Wadee, S Wadee, S A Madhi | 692-694 |
Telerheumatology in the era of COVID-19 in South Africa | |
S D Ntshalintshali, T Zwane, R du Toit | 695-696 |
Discovering hypertriglyceridaemia | |
A D Marais, D J Blom | 697 |
Decentralised HIV care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Ensuring safe community-based services | |
J Jarolimova, J Yan, S Govere, B A Bunda, N Ngobese, Z M Shazi, A R Khumalo, G Nelson, L M Ngcobo, N J Wara, D Zionts, R A Parker, I V Bassett | 698 |
Obituaries
Beorn Cloete Uys | |
A du Plessis | 699 |
Editorial
Familial hypercholesterolaemia in South Africa: A reminder | |
A D Marais, D J Blom, F J Raal, on behalf of the Lipid and the Lipid and Atherosclerosis Society of Southern Africa | 700-701 |
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: A complex social phenomenon | |
S Cooper, H van Rooyen, C S Wiysonge | 702-703 |
Continuing Medical Education
Asthma in South African children: Guidelines, obstacles and solutions | |
M E Levin | 704 |
Childhood asthma: A best-practice strategy for the diagnosis and assessment of control in South Africa | |
A van Niekerk, D A White, P Goussard, S M Risenga | 705-709 |
Management of asthma exacerbations in children | |
S Kling, D A White | 710-713 |
In Practice
Impact of COVID-19 on routine primary healthcare services in South Africa | |
Y Pillay, S Pienaar, P Barron, T Zondi | 714-719 |
Access to chloroquine in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases attending rheumatology outpatient clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic | |
S D Ntshalintshali, E M Geldenhuys, F Moosajee, W A M Musa, L du Plessis, A Viljoen, D Fortuin, R du Toit | 720-723 |
Hospital-based evaluation of tuberculosis-exposed neonates: An approach to complement the South African national guidance | |
A van der Westhuizen, A Dramowski, H S Schaaf, M Groenewald, A Bekker | 724-728 |
Using ceftazidime-avibactam for persistent carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens infection highlights antimicrobial stewardship challenges with new beta-lactam-inhibitor combination antibiotics | |
H D Tootla, J Copelyn, A Botha, A J Brink, B Eley | 729-731 |
Research
Tracking mortality in near to real time provides essential information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa in 2020 | |
D Bradshaw, R E Dorrington, R Laubscher, T A Moultrie, P Groenewald | 732-740 |
The prevalence of pulmonary embolism in non-hospitalised de-isolated patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 disease | |
O Evbuomwan, G Engelbrecht, M V Bergman, S Mokwena, O A Ayeni | 741-746 |
Low 30-day mortality in South African orthopaedic patients undergoing surgery at an academic hospital during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: It was safe to perform orthopaedic procedures at our hospital during the first COVID-19 peak | |
R Waters, R Dey, M Laubscher, R Dunn, S Maqungo, G McCollum, M Nortje, S Roche, T Hilton, W Mugla, M Held | 747-752 |
Antiretroviral therapy non-adherence among HIV-positive patients presenting to an emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa: Associations and reasons | |
A E Laher, G A Richards, F Paruk, W D F Venter | 753-758 |
Quality and turnaround times of viral load monitoring under prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV Option B+ in six South African districts with a high antenatal HIV burden | |
N K Ngandu, D F Nsibande, V Magasana, W Chirinda, T Mbira, G G Sherman, A E Goga | 759-767 |
The HIV cascade of care among serodiscordant couples in four high HIV prevalence settings in sub-Saharan Africa | |
M L Chihana, N Conan, T Ellman, E Poulet, D B Garone, R Ortuno, S Wanjala, C Masiku, J-F Etard, M-A Davies, D Maman | 768-776 |
Evaluating an antimicrobial stewardship programme implemented in an intensive care unit of a large academic hospital, using the RE-AIM framework | |
B E Nkosi, S Sibanda | 777-782 |
Expanding the epidemiological understanding of hepatitis C in South Africa: Perspectives from a patient cohort in a rural town | |
M W Sonderup, J Horak, H Smuts, J Saayman, L Boretti, J Black | 783-788 |
The epidemiology of traumatic brain injuries sustained by children under 10 years of age presenting to a tertiary hospital in Soweto, South Africa | |
V Lack, P N Fru, C van Rensburg, K van Rensburg, J A Loveland | 789-795 |
Incidence of febrile seizures and associated factors in children in Soweto, South Africa | |
N D Tebeila, Z Dangor, S A Madhi, C Cutland, M J Groome | 796-802 |
Obstructive jaundice: Studies on predictors of biliary infection and microbiological analysis in an HIV setting | |
K S Chiliza, F Madela, B Tlou, F Anderson | 803-808 |
CPD
CPD Questions | |