Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
165-166 |
Guest Editorial
Improving our understanding of antibiotic resistance: The relevance of surveillance at the population level | |
P O Bessong, R L Guerrant | 167 |
Rapidly changing mortality profiles in South Africa in its nine provinces | |
V Pillay-van Wyk, R E Dorrington, D Bradshaw | 168-169 |
Correspondence
Reliable systematic review of low-carbohydrate diets shows similar weight-loss effects compared with balanced diets and no cardiovascular risk benefits: Response to methodological criticisms | |
C E Naude, A Schoonees, M Senekal, P Garner, T Young, J Volmink | 170 |
Chronic kidney disease at primary care level: Significant challenges remain | |
J Bovijn | 171 |
Patients in whom surgical closure of terminal branches of external carotid arteries for migraine treatment resulted in reduced frequency of epileptic attacks | |
I Derakhshan | 172 |
Izindaba
30 days in medicine | |
173-174 |
Book reviews
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time. By Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016. ISBN: 9781780743141 | |
J P de V van Niekerk | 175 |
Editorial
Carpe diem (‘Seize the day’): Building on the findings of the 2015 World Health Organization evaluation of the multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) programme to make the most of shortened MDR-TB treatment in South Africa | |
M Loveday, H Cox | 176-177 |
Bevacizumab treatment for retinopathy of prematurity in South Africa | |
T Pollock | 178-179 |
Childhood injuries: A commission for human responsibilities is needed | |
A B van As, A Dhai | 180-181 |
Continuing Medical Education
Prevention of childhood injuries | |
A B van As, A van Niekerk | 182 |
Prevention of ingestion injuries in children | |
M Arnold, A B van As, A Numanoglu | 183-187 |
Schoolbus driver performance can be improved with driver training, safety incentivisation, and vehicle roadworthy modifications | |
A van Niekerk, R Govender, R Jacobs, A B van As | 188-191 |
In Practice
A framework for preventing healthcare-associated infection in neonates and children in South Africa | |
A Dramowski, M F Cotton, A Whitelaw | 192-195 |
Ownership and human tissue – the legal conundrum: A response to Jordaan’s critique | |
S Mahomed, M Nöthling-Slabbert, M S Pepper | 196-198 |
An imaginary legal conundrum: A reply to the response by Mahomed, Nöthling-Slabbert and Pepper | |
D Jordaan | 199-200 |
A review of patients with glutaric aciduria type 1 at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa | |
R Govender, A Mitha, L Mubaiwa | 201-204 |
Research
Antibiotic resistance patterns and beta-lactamase identification in Escherichia coli isolated from young children in rural Limpopo Province, South Africa: The MAL-ED cohort | |
A S DeFrancesco, N F Tanih, A Samie, R L Guerrant, P O Bessong | 205-214 |
The efficacy of intravitreal antivascular endothelial growth factor as primary treatment of retinopathy of prematurity: Experience from a tertiary hospital | |
H Kana, I Mayet, D Soma, H Dawood Alli, S Biddulph | 215-218 |
Trends in admissions, morbidity and outcomes at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, 2004 - 2013 | |
Y Isaacs-Long, L Myer, H J Zar | 219-226 |
A review of blood transfusions in a trauma unit for young children | |
M Salverda, N Ketharanathan, M van Dijk, E Beltchev, H Buys, A Numanoglu, A B van As | 227-231 |
Single-centre experience of allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplant in paediatric patients in Cape Town, South Africa | |
A van Eyssen, N Novitsky, P de Wit, T Schlaphoff, V Thomas, D Pillay, M Hendricks, A Davidson | 232-238 |
The accuracy of nurse performance of the triage process in a tertiary hospital emergency department in Gauteng Province, South Africa | |
L N Goldstein, L M Morrow, T A Sallie, K Gathoo, K Alli, T M M Mothopeng, F Samodien | 243-247 |
The impact of a modified World Health Organization surgical safety checklist on maternal outcomes in a South African setting: A stratified cluster-randomised controlled trial | |
M Naidoo, J Moodley, P Gathiram, B Sartorius | 248-257 |
A randomised trial comparing laparoscopy with laparotomy in the management of women with ruptured ectopic pregnancy | |
L Snyman, T Makulana, J D Makin | 258-263 |
The prevalence of HIV seropositivity and associated cytopenias in full blood counts processed at an academic laboratory in Soweto, South Africa. | |
J L Vaughan, T M Wiggill, N Alli, K Hodkinson | 264-269 |
Electrophoresis test prevalence, requesting patterns, yield and related bone marrow biopsy findings at a South African tertiary hospital: A 5-year retrospective audit | |
N Naidoo, R T Erasmus, R Grewal, A E Zemlin | 270-273 |
Errata
Immunisation coverage in the rural Eastern Cape – are we getting the basics of primary care right? Results from a longitudinal prospective cohort study | |
C Naidu | 274 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |