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D-Index
35
Citations
7913
World Ranking
6628
National Ranking
3213

Overview

J. T. Ptacek is affiliated with Bucknell University in the United States. Their documented research contributions include work published in the medical physics field, specifically within the journal Physica Medica.

One recent publication is titled EFOMP School for Medical Physics Expert, which was released in 2021 and appeared in Physica Medica. This work is coauthored with A. Torresin, Marco Brambilla, and E. Artuso, reflecting collaboration with these researchers.

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • A. Torresin
  • Marco Brambilla
  • E. Artuso

Their work has primarily appeared in:

  • Physica Medica

Best Publications

  • Breaking Bad News: A Review of the Literature

    J. T. Ptacek;Tara L. Eberhardt

  • Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure of Sport-Specific Psychological Skills: The Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-28

    Ronald E. Smith;Robert W. Schutz;Frank L. Smoll;J.T. Ptacek

  • Gender Differences in Coping with Stress: When Stressor and Appraisals Do Not Differ

    J. T. Ptacek;Ronald E. Smith;Kenneth L. Dodge

  • Gender, appraisal, and coping : a longitudinal analysis

    J. T. Ptacek;Ronald E. Smith;John Zanas

  • Conjunctive moderator variables in vulnerability and resiliency research: life stress, social support and coping skills, and adolescent sport injuries.

    Ronald E. Smith;Frank L. Smoll;John T. Ptacek

  • Can people remember how they coped? Factors associated with discordance between same-day and retrospective reports

    Ronald E. Smith;Thad R. Leffingwell;J. T. Ptacek

  • Limited correspondence between daily coping reports and restrospective coping recall.

    J. T. Ptacek;Ronald E. Smith;Kathleen Espe;Brian Raffety

  • Patients' perceptions of receiving bad news about cancer.

    J. T. Ptacek;John J. Ptacek

  • "I'm sorry to tell you ..." physicians' reports of breaking bad news.

    J. T. Ptacek;John J. Ptacek;Neil M. Ellison

  • Rates, trends, and severity of depression after burn injuries.

    S. A. Wiechman;J. T. Ptacek;D. R. Patterson;N. S. Gibran

  • Facilitating and debilitating trait anxiety, situational anxiety, and coping with an anticipated stressor: a process analysis.

    Brian D. Raffety;Ronald E. Smith;J. T. Ptacek

  • Sensation seeking, stress, and adolescent injuries : a test of stress-buffering, risk-taking, and coping skills hypotheses

    Ronald E. Smith;J. T. Ptacek;Frank L. Smoll

  • Breaking bad news to patients: physicians' perceptions of the process.

    J. T. Ptacek;E. A. Fries;T. L. Eberhardt;J. J. Ptacek

  • Time off work and return to work rates after burns: systematic review of the literature and a large two-center series.

    S. B. Brych;Loren H. Engrav;Frederick P. Rivara;J. T. Ptacek

  • Coping with breast cancer from the perspectives of husbands and wives.

    J. T. Ptacek;John J. Ptacek;Kenneth L. Dodge

  • The 2000 Clinical Research Award. Describing and predicting distress and satisfaction with life for burn survivors.

    David R. Patterson;J. T. Ptacek;Fred Cromes;James A. Fauerbach

  • Acute stress disorder after burn injury: a predictor of posttraumatic stress disorder?

    JoAnn Difede;J T Ptacek;Jennifer Roberts;Daniel Barocas

  • Pain, coping, and adjustment in patients with burns: preliminary findings from a prospective study.

    John T. Ptacek;David R. Patterson;Brenda K. Montgomery;David M. Heimbach

  • Baseline pain as a moderator of hypnotic analgesia for burn injury treatment

    David R. Patterson;J. T. Ptacek

  • Lorazepam as an adjunct to opioid analgesics in the treatment of burn pain

    David R Patterson;J.T Ptacek;Gretchen J Carrougher;Sam R Sharar

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald E. Smith
Ronald E. Smith University of Washington
Frank L. Smoll
Frank L. Smoll University of Washington
James A. Fauerbach
James A. Fauerbach Johns Hopkins University
JoAnn Difede
JoAnn Difede Cornell University

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