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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 1-2 |
Guest Editorial
| Using mobile technology to improve maternal, child and youth health and treatment of HIV patients | |
| Joanne Elizabeth Peter, Peter Barron, Yogan Pillay | 3-4 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | |
| Janet Seggie | 5-6 |
Izindaba
| Long-awaited autonomy in sight for SA’s doctors | |
| 7-8 |
| High-risk specialties threatened by runaway legal costs | |
| 9-11 |
| Basson’s private ECG tutoring sets pulses racing | |
| 11-13 |
Book reviews
| Being Mortal – Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End. By Atul Gawande. Newton, MA: Wellcome Collection, 2014. ISBN 978-1-84668-582-8 | |
| David John Eedes | 13 |
Editorial
| South African Guideline Excellence (SAGE): What’s in a name? | |
| Tamara Kredo, Shingai Machingaidze, Quinette Louw, Taryn Young, Karen Grimmer | 18-20 |
| Understanding healthcare and population mobility in southern Africa: The case of South Africa | |
| Helen L Walls, Jo Vearey, Moeketsi Modisenyane, Candice M Chetty-Makkan, Salome Charalambous, Richard D Smith, Johanna Hanefeld | 14-15 |
| The poverty of the concept of ‘poverty eradication’ | |
| Solly Robert Benatar | 16-17 |
| Acute heart failure: Can modern therapy delay or prevent death? | |
| Lionel Opie, Gaurang Deshpande | 20 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Cardiovascular medicine in primary healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa: Minimum standards for practice (part 1) | |
| Gboyega Ogunbanjo, Ntobeko A B Ntusi | 21-22 |
| Heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa: A clinical approach | |
| Sarah Kraus, Gboyega Ogunbanjo, Karen Sliwa, Ntobeko A B Ntusi | 23-31 |
| Dyspnoea: Pathophysiology and a clinical approach | |
| Cecilia B I Coccia, Gregori H Palkowski, Beverley Schweitzer, Tshepo Motsohi, Ntobeko Ntusi | 32-36 |
| An approach to the young hypertensive patient | |
| Phetho Mangena, Sadick Saban, Kefilwe Hlabyago, Brian Rayner | 36-38 |
| An approach to the diagnosis and management of valvular heart disease | |
| Blanche J Cupido, Ferande Peters, Ntobeko A B Ntusi | 39-42 |
Review
| Targeting composite treatment of type 2 diabetes in middle-income countries – walking a tightrope between hyperglycaemia and the dangers of hypoglycaemia | |
| Jeffrey Wing, Daksha Jivan | 57-61 |
In Practice
| Red meat, processed meat and cancer in South Africa | |
| Daniela Cristina Stefan | 43 |
Research
| The impact of an electronic clinical decision support for pulmonary embolism imaging on the efficiency of computed tomography pulmonary angiography utilisation in a resource-limited setting | |
| C Murthy, R Davis, C F N Koegelenberg, E M Irusen, R D Pitcher | 62-64 |
| The relationship between stunting and overweight among children from South Africa: Secondary analysis of the National Food Consumption Survey – Fortification Baseline I | |
| Elizabeth A Symington, Gerda J Gericke, Johanna H Nel, Demetre Labadarios | 65-69 |
| South African medical schools: Current state of selection criteria and medical students’ demographic profile | |
| L J van der Merwe, G J van Zyl, A St Clair Gibson, M Viljoen, J E Iputo, M Mammen, W Chitha, A M Perez, N Hartman, S Fonn, L Green-Thompson, O A Ayo-Ysuf, G C Botha, D Manning, S J Botha, R Hift, P Retief, B B van Heerden, J Volmink | 76-81 |
| HLA typing: Conventional techniques v. next-generation sequencing | |
| Juanita Mellet, Clive M Gray, Michael S Pepper | 88-91 |
| Antenatal screening for hepatitis B virus in HIV-infected and uninfected pregnant women in the Tshwane district of South Africa | |
| Q Diale, R Pattinson, R Chokoe, L Masenyetse, S Mayaphi | 97-100 |
| Prevalence of anaemia in pregnancy in a regional health facility in South Africa | |
| K Tunkyi, J Moodley | 101-104 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |
Recommendations
| Appropriate indications for positron emission tomography/computed tomography, 2015 | |
| Mariza Vorster, Alexia Doruyter, Anita Brink, Sonto Mkhize, Jen Holness, Nico Malan, Nozipho Nyakale, James M Warwick, Mike Sathekge | 105-122 |