Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
696-697 |
Guest Editorial
Ebola: Lessons learned | |
Rosie Burton | 698-699 |
Editor's choice
Editor's Choice | |
Janet Seggie | 700-701 |
Correspondence
Rural district hospitals – essential cogs in the district health system – and primary healthcare re-engineering | |
Martin Bac, Jannie Hugo | 702 |
Use of the Mentzer index will assist in early diagnosis of iron deficiency in South African children | |
D Lawrie, D K Glencross | 702-703 |
HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in South Africa – still a problem | PDF PDF |
Keikotlhae Gomolemo Koodibetse | 703 |
Izindaba
Contested PMB amendments – ‘funders the chief beneficiaries’ | |
704-706 |
Inept drug supply management causing stock-outs | |
706-707 |
‘Populist politicians’ take aim at ‘soft-target’ doctors | |
707-708 |
Forum
Nososcomial transmission of viral haemorrhagic fever in South Africa | |
Guy A Richards | 709-712 |
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in South African children following the measles outbreak between 2009 and 2011 | |
Edward Kija, Alvin Ndondo, Graeme Spittal, Diana R Hardie, Brian Eley, Jo M Wilmshurst | 713-718 |
A human perspective on body donation: A case study from a psychosocial perspective | |
Clare Manicom | 719-720 |
Endoscopic lung volume reduction in severe emphysema | |
Coenraad Frederik N Koegelenberg, Johan Theron, J W Bruwer, Brian W Allwood, Morné J Vorster, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Keertan Dheda | 721-723 |
Implementation of electronic scripts in South Africa | |
Karen du Toit, Sarisha Naicker, Johannes Bodenstein | 724-725 |
Recommendations for the use of bronchial thermoplasty in the management of severe asthma | |
Keertan Dheda, Coenraad F N Koegelenberg, Aliasgar Esmail, Elvis Irusen, Michael Wechsler, Rob M Niven, Eric D Bateman, Kian Fan Chung | 726-732 |
Recommendations for the anticoagulation of pregnant patients with mechanical heart valves | |
Elise Schapkaitz, Barry Frank Jacobson, Pravin Manga, Rufaro Saeed Chitsike, Estee Benade, Sylvia Haas, Harry R Buller | 733-738 |
Editorial
National Health Insurance in South Africa: Relevance of a national priority-setting agency | |
Karen J Hofman, Shelley McGee, Kalipso Chalkidou, Sripen Tantivess, Anthony J Culyer | 739-740 |
Reforming South Africa’s procedures for granting patents to improve medicine access | |
Catherine Tomlinson, John Ashmore, Anele Yawa, Julia Hill | 741-743 |
South African Guidelines Excellence (SAGE): Clinical practice guidelines - quality and credibility | |
Shingai Machingaidze, Tamara Kredo, Quinette Louw, Taryn Young, Karen Grimmer | 743-745 |
Gender and sexual diversity - changing paradigms in an ever-changing world | |
Michael Sean Pepper | 746-747 |
Research
Antimicrobial resistance of bacteria isolated from patients with bloodstream infections at a tertiary care hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
Leonid M Irenge, Landry Kabego, Faustin B Kinunu, Moise Itongwa, Prudence N Mitangala, Jean-Luc Gala, Raphael B Chirimwami | 752-755 |
The role of point-of-care blood testing for ketones in the diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis | |
Ankia Coetzee, Mariza Hoffmann, Brynne Ascott-Evans | 756-759 |
Reproductive knowledge and use of contraception among women with diabetes | |
Ayesha Osman, Anne Hoffman, Shane Moore, Zephne Van der Spuy | 760-764 |
Time to implement 9-month infant HIV testing in South Africa | |
Lee Fairlie, Caitlin Anna Madevu-Matson, Vivian Black, Gayle G Sherman | 765-768 |
Pharmacological treatment of painful HIV-associated sensory neuropathy | |
Prinisha Pillay, Antonia L Wadley, Catherine L Cherry, Alan S Karstaedt, Peter R Kamerman | 769-772 |
Bone marrow aspirate microscopy v. bone marrow trephine biopsy microscopy for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection | |
Qanita Sedick, Jennifer Vaughan, Pheeha Tebogo, Nazeer A Alli | 773-775 |
Codeine misuse and dependence in South Africa – learning from substance abuse treatment admissions | |
S Dada, N Harker Burnhams, M C van Hout, C D H Parry | 776-779 |
Affordable moisturisers are effective in atopic eczema: A randomised controlled trial | |
C Hlela, N Lunjani, F Gumedze, B Kakande, N P Khumalo | 780-784 |
Review
Viral haemorrhagic fevers in South Africa | |
Guy A Richards, Jacqueline Weyer, Lucille Blumberg | 748-751 |
Continuing Medical Education
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in South Africa: Under-recognised and undertreated | |
B Allwood, R N van Zyl-Smit | 785 |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – diagnosis and classification of severity | |
P J Viviers, R N van Zyl-Smit | 786 |
Pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: An African perspective | |
B Allwood, G Calligaro | 789 |
Non-pharmacological management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
S Abraham, G Symons | 789 |
Pharmacological management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
E Shaddock, G Richards | 790 |
Lung volume reduction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
M J Vorster, C F N Koegelenberg | 791 |
Five tips for good office spirometry | |
D M Maree | 791 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |