Vol. 113 No. 9 (2023)

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GUEST EDITORIAL

Postpartum depression: Addressing misinformation and harmful attitudes

IN PRACTICE

Failure to obtain informed consent – is it a criminal offence?

Causation of term perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic basal ganglia and thalamus injury in the context of cerebral palsy litigation: Position statement

RESEARCH

Utilisation and optimisation of beta-adrenergic receptor blockers over a 6-month period among chronic heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction

Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?

Perinatal outcome of maternal deaths at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2014 - June 2019

Prevalence of comorbid disease and associated risk factors among homeless people living in temporary shelters during the COVID-19 lockdown in Tshwane, South Africa

Published: 2023-09-04

Guest Editorial

Postpartum depression: Addressing misinformation and harmful attitudes

J Hoare, B Vythilingum

4-5
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In Practice

Medicine and the Law Failure to obtain informed consent – is it a criminal offence?

M S Khan

18-19
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Medicine and the Law What doctors should know when working with surrogate decision-makers who disagree with their treatment plans

D J McQuoid-Mason

20-21
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Clinical practice Causation of term perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic basal ganglia and thalamus injury in the context of cerebral palsy litigation: Position statement

I Bhorat, E Buchmann, K Frank, P Soma-Pillay, E Nicolaou, L Pistorius, I Smuts

22-24
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Editorials

The importance of including manner of (injury) death on the death notification form

P Groenewald, R Matzopoulos, E Afonso, D Bradshaw

11-12
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South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination

E Klug, P van der Bijl

14-15
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Correspondence

Response to ‘A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals’ by Rodseth et al.

R Noach

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Research

A national retrospective descriptive analysis of critical care transfers in the private sector in South Africa

M Venter, W Stassen

38-43
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Utilisation and optimisation of beta-adrenergic receptor blockers over a 6-month period among chronic heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction

M Kampamba, P Mweetwa, W Mufwambi, A Hamachila, J Hangoma

25-29
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Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?

P Groenewald, N Kallis, C Holmgren, T Glass, A Anthony, P Maud, Y Akhalwaya, E Afonso, I Niewoudt, L J Martin, C de Vaal, M Cheyip, D Morof, M Prinsloo, R Matzopoulos, D Bradshaw

30-35
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Longitudinal data resource from the Wellbeing of Older People cohort of people aged >50 years in Uganda and South Africa from 2009 to 2019

J O Mugisha, A Edwards, N Naidoo, S Chatterji, J Seeley, P Kowal

36-41
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Perinatal outcome of maternal deaths at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2014 - June 2019

N Msibi-Afolayan, M Nchinyani, F Nakwa, Y Adam

42-47
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Prevalence of comorbid disease and associated risk factors among homeless people living in temporary shelters during the COVID-19 lockdown in Tshwane, South Africa

T V Phiri, N Gloeck, A Musekiwa

48-52
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Time to thrombolysis and factors contributing to delays in patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

I Tickley, S A van Blydenstein, R Meel

53-58
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CPD
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Retraction

Retraction: Cancer mortality trends in South Africa: 1997 – 2016

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