Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 463-464 |
From the Editor
| Surplus people | |
| Bridget Farham | 465 |
Correspondence
| The World Health Organization excludes Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the 2017 priority pathogens list | |
| Nesri Padayatchi, Sharana Mahomed, Max O’Donnell, Francesca Conradie, Kogieleum Naidoo | 466 |
| Bridging non-communicable disease burden research to clinical care: A rising tide or a tidal wave? | |
| Ilya Golovaty, Alastair van Heerden, Zaynab Essack, Heidi van Rooyen, Ruanne Barnabas | 467 |
Izindaba
| 30 days in medicine | |
| 468 |
| Cecil John Tainton Craig (4 September 1927 - 2 August 2016) | |
| 469 |
Editorial
| South Africa’s vital statistics are currently not suitable for monitoring progress towards injury and violence Sustainable Development Goals | |
| Megan Prinsloo, Debbie Bradshaw, Jané Joubert, Richard Matzopoulos, Pam Groenewald | 470-471 |
In Practice
| Exploitation of the vulnerable in research: Responses to lessons learnt in history | |
| Amaboo Dhai | 472-474 |
| When students become patients: TB disease among medical undergraduates in Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen, Angela Dramowski | 475-479 |
| Beware: The femoral haemodialysis catheter – a surgeon’s perspective | |
| Tinus du Toit, David Thomson, Elmi Muller | 480-482 |
| Complementary medicines: When regulation results in revolution | |
| Liezl Fourie, Frasia Oosthuizen, Karen du Toit | 483-485 |
| Establishing an academic biobank in a resource-challenged environment | |
| Cassandra Claire Soo, Freedom Mukomana, Scott Hazelhurst, Michele Ramsay | 486-492 |
| Audits of oncology units – an effective and pragmatic approach | |
| Raymond Pierre Abratt, David Eedes, Belinda Bailey, Chris Salmon, Yogi Govender, Ivan Oelofse, Henriette Burger | 493-496 |
Review
| Sentinel lymph node biopsy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the management of early breast cancer: Safety considerations and timing | |
| Jenny Edge, Sarah Nietz | 497-500 |
Research
| Training and support to improve ICD coding quality: A controlled before-and-after impact evaluation | |
| Robin Dyers, Grant Ward, Shane du Plooy, Stephanus Fourie, Juliet Evans, Hassan Mahomed | 501-506 |
| Analysis of HIV disease burden by calculating the percentages of patients with CD4 counts <100 cells/µL across 52 districts reveals hot spots for intensified commitment to programmatic support | |
| Lindi Marie Coetzee, Naseem Cassim, Deborah Kim Glencross | 507-513 |
| Cytomegalovirus retinitis in Cape Town, South Africa: Clinical management and outcomes | |
| Steven R J Lapere, James C Rice | 514-517 |
| Characteristics and outcomes of gunshot-acquired spinal cord injury in South Africa | |
| Conran Joseph | 518-522 |
| Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus in a South African population: Prevalence, comparison of diagnostic criteria and the role of risk factors | |
| Sumaiya Adam, Paul Rheeder | 523-527 |
| Effects of exogenous human insulin dose adjustment on body mass index in adult patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus at Kalafong Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa, 2009 - 2014 | |
| Tohlang Solomon A Sehloho, Danie G van Zyl | 528-534 |
| The status of vaccine availability and associated factors in Tshwane government clinics | |
| Ntombenhle Judith Ngcobo, Mercy G Kamupira | 535-538 |
| Report on the first government-funded opioid substitution programme for heroin users in the Western Cape Province, South Africa | |
| Graeme Michie, Shuaib Hoosain, Muiruri Macharia, Lize Weich | 539-542 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |