Table of Contents
Editorials
| Chronic Illness - The New Opportunity | |
| Sam Fehrsen | 3 |
Forum
| Further Reflections On Chronic Illness Care (Seven habits of highly effective carers) | |
| Ian Couper | 4-11 |
InfoPOEMs
| Steroids+salmeterol in moderate asthma; dapsone gel in acne vulgaris | |
| Editorial Office | 48 |
Original Research
| The appropriateness of patients’ visits to an emergency department. [Die toepaslikheid van pasiënt besoeke aan ‘n noodgevalle eenheid] | |
| L le Roux, M Nel, MVJ van Vuuren, WJ Rabie | 14 |
| Family practitioners perception of, knowledge about and use of peak flow meters in Lenasia, Lenasia South, and Soweto Community Health clinics | |
| Bhadrish Kantilal Vallabh, Dhamend Lutchman, David Rees | 15 |
| Knowledge of and attitude towards pain relief during labour of women attending Cecilia Makiwane Hospital’s antenatal clinic, South Africa | |
| JM Mugambe, M Nel, LA Hiemstra, WJ Steinberg | 16 |
| Pretoria medical students’ perspectives on assessable attributes of Professionalism | |
| Marietjie van Rooyen, Ina Treadwell | 17 |
CPD
| Caring for our children | |
| Ben Marais | 18 |
| Important HIV-associated conditions in HIV-infected infants and children | |
| H Rabie, BJ Marais, R Van Toorn, P Nourse, ED Nel, P Goussard, N Sellers, MF Cotton | 19 |
| Contraception for the perimenopausal woman | |
| Leon Snyman | 25-26 |
| The management of adults and children with moderate severity asthma | |
| PM Jeena | 28-32 |
| Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain in Older Patients | |
| C Lyon, DC Clark | 35-40 |
Review Articles
| Important HIV-associated conditions in HIV-infected infants and children | |
| Helmuth Reuter |
Regulars
| New product reviews: Metronidazole gel | |
| Amayeza Drug Info Centre | 44 |
| New product review:iso-osmotic laxative polyethylene glycol | |
| Amayeza Drug Info Centre | 46 |
Press Releases
| Merck Takes a Global Step Forward in the Fight against Diabetes | |
| Editorial Office | 24 |
| World No Tobacco day | |
| Editorial Office | 42 |
SA Fam Pract | ISSN: 1726-426X
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