Publications

The need for and meaning of positive organizational behavior

Abstract This essay draws from the emerging positive psychology movement and the author's recent articles on the need for and meaning of a positive approach to organizational be...

2012 focused update of the ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation; European Society of Cardiology; Guidelines; Anticoagulation; Novel oral anticoagulants; Left atrial appendage occlusion; Rate control; Cardioversion; Rhythm...

PPAR-γ agonists inhibit production of monocyte inflammatory cytokines

COSMIN guideline for systematic reviews of patient-reported outcome measures

PurposeSystematic reviews of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) differ from reviews of interventions and diagnostic test accuracy studies and are complex. In fact, conduc...

Evaluating non-randomised intervention studies

Results of non-randomised studies sometimes, but not always, differ from results of randomised studies of the same intervention. Non-randomised studies may still give seriously ...

International experiences with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-A review of validation data and clinical results

Loss of CTLA-4 leads to massive lymphoproliferation and fatal multiorgan tissue destruction, revealing a critical negative regulatory role of CTLA-4

The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors

Smoking and high blood pressure, which both have effective interventions, are responsible for the largest number of deaths in the US. Other dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic ris...

Raise standards for preclinical cancer research

The Life Course as Developmental Theory

The pioneering longitudinal studies of child development (all launched in the 1920s and 1930s) were extended well beyond childhood. Indeed, they eventually followed their young ...

Frailty: implications for clinical practice and public health

Frailty is an emerging global health burden, with major implications for clinical practice and public health. The prevalence of frailty is expected to rise alongside rapid growt...

Interpreting the significance of changes in health-related quality-of-life scores.

PURPOSE To determine the significance to patients of changes in health-related quality-of-life (HLQ) scores assessed by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of C...