Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
126-127 |
From the Editor
Our canine carers | PDF HTML |
Janet Seggie | 128-129 |
Editor's choice
Editor's Choice | PDF HTML |
Janet Seggie | 130 |
Correspondence
Overmedicalising – again! | PDF HTML |
M Schwellnus, W Derman, reply by B Farham | 131-132 |
Underreporting child abuse deaths: Experiences from a national study on child homicide | PDF HTML |
S Mathews, N Abrahams, R Jewkes, L J Martin | 132-133 |
Not all is rosy with PinkDrive | PDF HTML |
J P Apffelstaedt | 133 |
Izindaba
One doctor’s misfortune boosts TB treatment activism | PDF HTML |
134-135 |
PinkDrive intervention ‘over-rated’ – experts | PDF HTML |
136-137 |
The PPP 'without the GP' – a Western Cape story | PDF HTML |
137-139 |
Provincial policy death-knell for iconic McCord Hospital? | PDF HTML |
139-142 |
Obituaries
Edward John (Ed) Immelman | PDF HTML |
David M Dent, Delawir Kahn | 142 |
John Emile Cosnett | PDF HTML |
D J Pudifin | 142 |
Book reviews
"Common Medical Problems in the Tropics" - By C R Schull. 3rd ed., revised and updated. Oxford: Macmillan, 2009. ISBN 978-0-23003-104-3. | PDF HTML |
T Boyles | 143 |
"Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society" - By Nortin M Hadler. Cape Town: UCT Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-92049-996-9. | PDF HTML |
J P van Niekerk | 143 |
"Daily Drug Use" - Edited by Leesette Turner. 9th ed. Cape Town: Cape Western Province Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa, 2010. ISBN 978-0-620-46757-5. | PDF HTML |
G Parr | 143 |
Forum
Risks identified in implementation of district clinical specialist teams | PDF HTML |
R Nathan, P Rautenbach | 144-146 |
Establishing a Health Promotion and Development Foundation in South Africa | PDF HTML |
A M Perez, O A Ayo-Yusuf, K Hofman, S Kalideen, A Maker, D Mokonoto, N Morojele, P Naidoo, C D H Parry, K Rendall-Mkosi, Y Saloojee | 147-149 |
Clinical pharmacology becomes a specialty in South Africa | PDF HTML |
A Walubo, K I Barnes, E Kwizera, O Greeff, B Rosenkranz, G Maartens | 150-151 |
The pilgrim's prognosis - medical aspects of a camino | PDF HTML |
R-I Caldwell | 152-153 |
So many years ago | PDF HTML |
R le Roex | 153 |
Editorial
The challenges of health disparities in South Africa | PDF HTML |
S R Benatar | 154-155 |
National Health Insurance: The first 16 months | PDF HTML |
M P Matsoso, R Fryatt | 156-158 |
Triaging children - keep it simple, swift and safe | PDF HTML |
E M Molyneux | 158-159 |
Acute asthma treatment guidelines: Reducing morbidity and mortality in South Africa | |
H J Zar, U G Lalloo | 159-160 |
Research
An adapted triage tool (ETAT) at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital Medical Emergency Unit, Cape Town: An evaluation | PDF HTML |
H Buys, R Muloiwa, C Westwood, D Richardson, B Cheema, A Westwood | 161-165 |
Is the golden hour optimally used in South Africa for children presenting with polytrauma? | PDF HTML |
J Zuidgeest, A Jonkheijm, M van Dijk, A van As | 166-167 |
The Clostridium difficile problem: A South African tertiary institution's prospective perspective | PDF HTML |
N M Rajabally, M Pentecost, G Pretorius, A Whitelaw, M Mendelson, G Watermeyer | 168-172 |
Malaria control aimed at the entire population in KwaZulu-Natal negates the need for policies to prevent malaria in pregnancy | PDF HTML |
J M Tsoka-Gwegweni, I Kleinschmidt | 172-175 |
Tuberculosis in medical doctors – a study of personal experiences and attitudes | PDF HTML |
A Naidoo, S S Naidoo, P Gathiram, U G Lalloo | 176-180 |
Measles vaccination coverage in high-incidence areas of the Western Cape, following the mass vaccination campaign | PDF HTML |
G L Bernhardt, N A Cameron, B Willems, A Boulle, D Coetzee | 181-186 |
Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus and syphilis among individuals attending anonymous testing for HIV in Luanda, Angola | PDF HTML |
H Guimarães Nebenzahl, Â Lopes, R Castro, F Pereira | 186-188 |
Guidelines
Guideline for the management of acute asthma in adults: 2013 update | PDF HTML |
U G Lalloo, G M Ainslie, M S Abdool-Gaffar, A A Awotedu, C Feldman, M Greenblatt, E M Irusen, R Mash, S S Naidoo, J O'Brien, W Otto, G A Richards, M L Wong,, (Official Working Group of the South African Thoracic Society) | 189-198 |
Guideline for the management of acute asthma in children: 2013 update | PDF HTML |
S Kling, H J Zar, M E Levin, R J Green, P M Jeena, S M Risenga, S A Thula, P Goussard, R P Gie, for the South African Childhood Asthma Working Group (SACAWG) | 199-207 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |