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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 715-716 |
Guest Editorial
| Mediation - an alternative to litigation in medical malpractice | PDF HTML |
| Johan Walters | 717-718 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | PDF HTML |
| Janet Seggie | 718-719 |
Correspondence
| Bureaucracy and clinical performance | PDF HTML |
| Jonathan Victor Larsen | 720 |
| A puzzling case of cryptococcal meningitis | PDF HTML |
| Stewart James Brown, Simon George, Kate Braithwaite | 720 |
| Dr Mary Gordon | PDF HTML |
| Jack Metz | 721 |
Izindaba
| Ebola global response: ‘not in my back yard’ | PDF HTML |
| 722-724 |
| Emergency care doctors – ‘off-task and in the wrong places’ | PDF HTML |
| 725-727 |
| The smell of coffee, blood and disinfectant … | PDF HTML |
| 727-729 |
| Discard the placenta at your peril, pathologist warns doctors | PDF HTML |
| 729-730 |
Book reviews
| Principles of Medicine in Africa. Ed. by David Mabey, Geoffrey Gill, Eldryd Parry, Martin W Weber and Christopher JM Whitty. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-00251-7 | PDF HTML |
| Bridget Farham | 731 |
| Creative Arts in Humane Medicine. Ed. by Cheryl McLean. Alberta: Brush Education Inc., 2014. ISBN 978-155059454-6 | PDF HTML |
| Dawn Garisch | 731 |
Forum
| Blood-borne infections in healthcare workers in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Theresa M Rossouw, Marietjie van Rooyen, J Murray Louw, Karin Louise Richter | 732-735 |
| Impressions of defensive medical practice and medical litigation among South African neurosurgeons | PDF HTML |
| David Roytowski, Timothy R Smith, A Graham Fieggen, Allan Taylor | 736-738 |
| The impact of the Consumer Protection Act on pharmacists | PDF HTML |
| Karen du Toit, Evert van Eeden | 738-740 |
| Interference with the clinical independence of doctors in hospitals faced with a shortage of resources: What should doctors do? | PDF HTML |
| David Jan McQuoid-Mason | 741-742 |
| Recommendations for the management of sickle cell disease in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Nazeer Ahmed Alli, Moosa Patel, Hassan Dawood Alli, Fatima Bassa, Marius J Coetzee, Alan Davidson, Mohammed Rafique Essop, Atul Lakha, Vernon J Louw, Nicolas Novitzky, Vinitha Philip, Janet Elizabeth Poole, Rosalind Wainwright | 743-751 |
Editorial
| Public somnambulism: A general lack of awareness of the consequences of increasing medical negligence litigation | PDF HTML |
| Graham Robert Howarth, B Goolab, R N Dunn, A G Fieggen | 752-753 |
| Ebola virus disease in West Africa: South African perspectives | PDF HTML |
| Jaqueline Weyer, Lucille Hellen Blumberg | 754-755 |
| Compensation for research injuries: Thoughts from a human research ethics committee chair | PDF HTML |
| Peter Cleaton-Jones | 755-756 |
| Who will guard the guards? Medical leadership and conflict of interest in South African healthcare | PDF HTML |
| Andy Parrish, Marc Blockman | 757-758 |
Research
| Compensation for research-related harm: The implications of Venter v Roche Products (Pty) Limited and Others for research ethics committees | PDF HTML |
| Ann Strode, Priya Pravesh Singh | 759-761 |
| Appropriateness of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans in the Eden and Central Karoo districts of the Western Cape Province, South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Juanita Becker, Louis Stander Jenkins, Magdaleen de Swardt, Rauf Sayed, Martin Viljoen | 762-765 |
| Determining need for hospitalisation: Evaluation of the utility of the CRB-65 score in patients with community-acquired pneumonia presenting to an emergency department | PDF HTML |
| Dalton Mulombe Kabundji, Alfred Musekiwa, Murimisi Mukansi, Charles Feldman | 769-772 |
| The association of khat (Catha edulis) chewing and orodental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis | PDF HTML |
| Ayalew Astatkie, Meaza Demissie, Yemane Berhane | 773-779 |
| Duchenne muscular dystrophy: High-resolution melting curve analysis as an affordable diagnostic mutation scanning tool in a South African cohort | PDF HTML |
| Alina Izabela Esterhuizen, J M Wilmshurst, R G Goliath, L J Greenberg | 779-784 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Immunology as a medical discipline in South Africa: Why, how and what form? | PDF HTML |
| J Peter, S Ress, C Gray | 785-786 |
| Superheroes in autoimmune warfare: Biologic therapies in current SA practice | PDF HTML |
| G Tarr, B Hodkinson, H Reuter | 787-791 |
| Investigation of adult immunodeficiency and indications for immunoglobulin replacement therapy | PDF HTML |
| S Ress | 791-792 |
| Investigation and management of primary immunodeficiency in South African children | PDF HTML |
| B Eley, M Esser | 793 |
| Advances in the diagnosis and management of allergic disease: Applications to South African practice | PDF HTML |
| A Pentz, R J Green | 794 |
| Immune tolerance and immunosuppression in solid organ transplantation | PDF HTML |
| C W N Spearman, Z A Barday | 795 |
| Recommendations for the use of immunoglobulin therapy for immunomodulation and antibody replacement | PDF HTML |
| J G Peter, J M Heckmann, N Novitzky | 796 |
CPD
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Paediatric Hepatobiliary
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| Emma Buchanan | 797 |
| Liver disease in children: From neonatal jaundice to living donor liver transplantation | PDF HTML |
| Jerome Loveland | 798 |
| Paediatric liver transplantation in Johannesburg revisited: 59 transplants and challenges met | PDF HTML |
| Jerome Loveland, Russell Britz, Craig Joseph, Anna Sparaco, Michele Zuckerman, Alan Langnas, Gunter Schleicher, Bernd Strobele, Porai Moshesh, Jean Botha | 799-802 |
| Paediatric pancreatic trauma: A review of the literature and results of a multicentre survey on patient management: | PDF HTML |
| Chris Westgarth-Taylor, Jerome Loveland | 803-807 |
| Acute liver failure and transplantation in children | PDF HTML |
| Simon Horslen | 808-812 |
| Liver tumours in children: Current surgical management and role of Transplantation | PDF HTML |
| Alastair J W Millar | 813-815 |
| Controversies in choledochal malformation | PDF HTML |
| John J Atkinson, Mark Davenport | 816-819 |
| Role of laparoscopy during surgery at the porta hepatis | PDF HTML |
| A Yamataka, G J Lane, H Koga, J Cazares, H Nakamura | 820-824 |
| The role of interventional radiology in complications after paediatric liver transplantation | PDF HTML |
| John Cantrell | 825-829 |
| Paediatric lver transplantation for children treated at public health facilities in South Africa: Time for change | PDF HTML |
| Sanjay Govind Lala, Russell Britz, Jean Botha, Jerome Loveland | 829-832 |