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April 2021, Vol. 111, No. 4CORRESPONDENCE
279 When culture, traditions and public health clash: A paradigm shift urgently needed to stem the spread of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
T Dzinamarira, G Musuka
280 Factors affecting specialist psychiatry training in South Africa: Bullying during specialist psychiatric training?
N Beath, K Moxley, U Subramaney, Z Zingela, B Chiliza, J Joska, C Kotzé, S Seedat 281 Surgical training in the private sector in South Africa
D Lutrin, H Etheredge, J Fabian, C Bouter, S Tager
IZINDABA
OBITUARIES
282 Kgopotso Rudolf Mononyane
B Biccard, A Beeton, C Corbett, L Mfeya, P Mogane, B Mrara, S Ndemera, T Ngubane, A Roux, L Lasersohn
284 George Dimopoulos S Boyd, T Hardcastle 285 Iqbal Haroon Master
N Ndjeka, A Reuter, F Conradie, M Enwerem, H Ferreira, J Hughes, F Ismail, N Ismail, Y Kock, X Padanilam, R Romero, J te Riele, H S Schaaf, E Variava, G Meintjes, G Maartens
287 Jacques Cilliers J Smith, H F Jordaan
IN PRACTICE
ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH
288 A qualitative analysis of seven ivermectin formulations in South Africa Q E Bhorat, A E Bhorat
CLINICAL ALERT
291 COVID-19 vaccination: Recommendation for management of patients with allergy or immune-based diseases
J Peter
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
295 COVID-19: Experience of a tertiary children’s hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa A N Parbhoo, A Numanoglu, A C Argent, M Franken, M Mukosi, M I McCulloch
299 A nurse-led intervention to improve management of virological failure in public sector HIV clinics in Durban, South Africa: A pre- and post-implementation evaluation
H Sunpath, S Pillay, T J Hatlen, R A Murphy, V C Marconi, M-Y S Moosa, K Naidoo, M J Siedner MEDICINE AND THE LAW
304 COVID-19: May hospitals in one province of South Africa reserve empty beds for patients from their province and turn down emergency requests from other provinces?
D J McQuoid-Mason CASE REPORT
307 Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis due to Rickettsia conorii infection D Woolf, M Jordaan, G Maartens
RESEARCH
309 Primary healthcare workers at risk during COVID-19: An analysis of infections in HIV service providers in five districts of South Africa
K Rees, J L Dunlop, S Patel-Abrahams, H Struthers, J A McIntyre
315 Experiences of workplace bullying among academics in a health sciences faculty at a South African university
D N Conco, L Baldwin-Ragaven, N J Christofides, E Libhaber, L C Rispel, J A White, B Kramer 321 Analgesic practices and predictors of use in South Africa-based runners
R Thorpe, M Blockman, T Burgess
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EDITOR
Bridget Farham, BSc Hons, PhD, MB ChB EDITORS EMERITUS
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April 2021, Vol. 11, No. 4 327 Establishing local reference intervals for full blood count and white blood cell differential countsin Cape Town, South Africa
A de Koker, A R Bird, C Swart, J J Rogerson, C Hilton, J J Opie
333 Venous bicarbonate and creatine kinase as diagnostic and prognostic tools in the setting of acute traumatic rhabdomyolysis
J J P Buitendag, M Q Patel, S Variawa, J Fichardt, B Mostert, A Goliath, D L Clarke, G V Oosthuizen
338 A prospective observational study of preoperative natriuretic peptide testing in adult non- cardiac surgical patients in hospitals in Western Cape Province, South Africa
C S Alphonsus, M Jagga, M Crowther, E Coetzee, G Davies, Z Fullerton, H A van Zyl, A Reed, E Cloete, J Roos, F Roodt, R N Rodseth, B M Biccard, and collaborators
343 District hospital surgical capacity in Western Cape Province, South Africa:
A cross-sectional survey P Naidu, K M Chu
350 Metabolic syndrome at 6 weeks after delivery in a cohort of pre-eclamptic and normotensive women
P Ntlemo, T Cronje, P Soma-Pillay
355 International normalised ratio control in a non-metropolitan setting in Western Cape Province, South Africa
D N Prinsloo, T J Gould, C A Viljoen, W Basera, M Ntsekhe
361 Preventable deaths among youth in South Africa: Measuring life expectancy in the absence of non-communicable diseases and its implications for the healthcare system
N de Wet-Billings CPD QUESTIONS
IN PRACTICE A qualitative analysis of seven ivermectin formulations in South Africa COVID-19 vaccination: Recommendations for management of patients with allergy-based diseases RESEARCH
Primary healthcare workers at risk during COVID-19:
An analysis of infections in HIV service providers in five districts
Experiences of workplace bullying among academics in a health sciences facility at a South African university Analgesic practices and predictors of use in South African-based runners Establishing local reference intervals for full blood count and white blood cell differential counts in Cape Town, South Africa INR control in a non-metropolitan setting in Western Cape, South Africa
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APRIL 2021 VOL. 111 NO. 4
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