BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory–II; EORTC-QLQ-C30: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of CancerQuality of Life Questionnaire-C30; GHQ-12: 12 items General Health Questionnaire; PHR: Pancreatic Head Resection; PNETs: Pancreatic Neuro Endocrine Tumors; PROs: Patient-Reported Outcomes; QLQ PAN26: Quality of Life Questionnaire-PAN26; QoL: Quality of Life; SF-12: Medical Outcome Stud...

The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) was a three-year study testing the hypothesis that rewarding teachers for improved student scores on standardized tests would cause scores to rise. Results, as described in Springer et al. (2010b), did not confirm this hypothesis. In this article we provide additional information on the POINT study that may be of particular interest to researchers c...

OBJECTIVES Quality of life (QoL) has been recognized as an important postoperative outcome. Despite the growing interest in this topic, there is almost no information about the daily use of QoL questionnaires within European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS). The aim of this paper is to present the results of a survey launched to know the current practice of collecting and using QoL data withi...

During the administration of President George W Bush, senior personnel of the American Psychological Association (APA) secretly colluded with US officials in the White House, the Department of Defense, and the Central Intelligence Agency to support the ethical justification of the spy agency’s “enhanced” interrogation program, while the APA misled the public about its involvement, says a report...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to establish the reliability and validity of the Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment questionnaire, which was translated into Korean, for patients with musculoskeletal disorder. [Subjects and Methods] Fifty-five subjects (26 males and 29 females) with musculoskeletal diseases participated in the study. The Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment q...

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