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Gunnar Tómasson - Associate Professor
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School of Health Sciences
Gunnar Tómasson
Íslenska
Associate Professor
Location
Sturlugata 8
Phone
525 - 4155
Email
gunnart [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Medicine
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1797-7091
Research portal – Gunnar Tómasson
Courses 2024 - 2025
LÝÐ202F - The Scientific Process: Ethics, Communication and Practicalities
HVS202G - Introduction to multidisciplinary health sciences - The health science day
LÝÐ085F - Epidemiologic Methods (Epidemiology II)
LÆK034G - Reading, understanding and interpreting scientific literature
HGF301G - Information technology in Health Sciences
LÆK202F - Internal Medicine, theoretical
Published works
2024
Sexual violence in the workplace and associated health outcomes
The Lancet Public Health
Mental illness and COVID-19 vaccination
Nature Communications
Advancing composite outcome measures
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
2023
COVID-19 illness severity and 2-year prevalence of physical symptoms
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
EULAR recommendations for the management of ANCA-associated vasculitis
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Systematic literature review informing the 2022 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV)
RMD Open
Adverse childhood experiences and psychological functioning among women with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
Systematic literature review informing the 2022 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV)
RMD Open
Appraisals of Social Trauma and Their Role in the Development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder
Behavioral Sciences
2022
Risk factors for workplace sexual harassment and violence among a national cohort of women in Iceland
The Lancet Public Health
Association between adverse childhood experiences and premenstrual disorders
BMC Medicine
An international Delphi exercise to identify items of importance for measuring response to treatment in ANCA-associated vasculitis
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
The Sound of Interconnectivity; The European Vasculitis Society 2022 Report
Kidney International Reports
Cohort Profile
International Journal of Epidemiology
Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Multiple Sclerosis in Icelandic Women-A Population-Based Cohort Study
Brain Sciences
Psychometric properties of outcome measurement instruments for ANCA-associated vasculitis
Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Adverse childhood experiences and resilience among adult women
eLife
Sleep disturbances among women in a Subarctic region: a nationwide study
Sleep
2021
Patients in need of comprehensive geriatric assessment
International Emergency Nursing
Composite outcomes at OMERACT
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
Developing a composite outcome tool to measure response to treatment in ANCA-associated vasculitis
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
Illness severity and risk of mental morbidities among patients recovering from COVID-19
BMJ Open
Serum Biomarkers of Disease Activity in Longitudinal Assessment of Patients with ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
ACR Open Rheumatology
2020
Use and reporting of outcome measures in randomized trials for anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
Association of tramadol with risk of myocardial infarction among patients with osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
2018 Update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of large vessel vasculitis
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Suicide rates in Iceland before and after the 2008 Global Recession
European Journal of Public Health
2019
Feasibility and construct validation of the patient reported outcomes measurement information system in systemic vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
Updating OMERACT core set of domains for ANCA-associated vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
Cardiovascular risk factors and incident giant cell arteritis
Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
Update on outcome measure development in large-vessel vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
2018
Validation of the ANCA-associated vasculitis patient-reported outcomes (AAV-PRO) questionnaire
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
La asociación de diferentes eventos traumáticos vitales y suicidalidad
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Obstetric interventions, trends, and drivers of change
Birth
Health-related quality of life in ANCA-associated vasculitis and item generation for a disease-specific patient-reported outcome measure
Patient Related Outcome Measures
Long-lasting improvements in health-related quality of life among women with chronic pain, following multidisciplinary rehabilitation
Disability and Rehabilitation
Association of stress-related disorders with subsequent autoimmune disease
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
The association between different traumatic life events and suicidality
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
The association between different traumatic life events and suicidality.
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
The association between different traumatic life events and suicidality.
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
2017
Development of a core set of outcome measures for large-vessel vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
OMERACT endorsement of patient-reported outcome instruments in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
Patient perceptions of glucocorticoids in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Rheumatology International;
Assessment of disease activity in large-vessel vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
Temporal Trends of Venous Thromboembolism Risk Before and After Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis
Arthritis and Rheumatology
Rate of comorbidities in giant cell arteritis
Journal of Rheumatology
Determinants of Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Pain among Nurses in a University Hospital
Pain Management Nursing
Infections and the risk of incident giant cell arteritis
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Response to eLetter
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
2016
Health-related quality of life improvements among women with chronic pain
Disability and Rehabilitation
Comorbidities in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis versus the general population
Journal of Rheumatology
2015
Nýlegar aðferðir til að fyrirbyggja eða leiðrétta gruggun í áhorfsrannsókum
Outcome measures for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Current Opinion in Rheumatology
Exploration, development, and validation of patient-reported outcomes in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis using the OMERACT process
Journal of Rheumatology
Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
2014
Current status of outcome measure development in vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
Risk for cardiovascular disease early and late after a diagnosis of giant-cell arteritis
Annals of Internal Medicine
The value of a patient global assessment of disease activity in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's)
Arthritis and Rheumatology
In response
Annals of Internal Medicine
2013
Serum proteins reflecting inflammation, injury and repair as biomarkers of disease activity in ANCA-associated vasculitis
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Quality of life and outcome measures in vasculitis
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology
2012
Association of vascular physical examination findings and arteriographic lesions in large vessel vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
Distribution of arterial lesions in Takayasu's arteritis and giant cell arteritis
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Meingerð liðbólgusjúkdóma
Value of ANCA measurements during remission to predict a relapse of ANCA-associated vasculitis-a meta-analysis
Rheumatology
Circulating angiopoietin-2 as a biomarker in ANCA-associated vasculitis
PLoS ONE
Assessment of health-related quality of life as an outcome measure in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (wegener's)
Arthritis Care and Research
2011
Circulating markers of vascular injury and angiogenesis in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Arthritis and Rheumatism
Development of outcome measures for large-vessel vasculitis for use in clinical trials
Journal of Rheumatology
Forprófun á mælitæki til að meta þekkingu og viðhorf hjúkrunarfræðinga til verkja og verkjameðferðar.
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
The OMERACT core set of outcome measures for use in clinical trials of ANCA-associated vasculitis
Journal of Rheumatology
Relationship between markers of platelet activation and inflammation with disease activity in Wegener's granulomatosis
Journal of Rheumatology
2010
Effect of rheumatoid factor on mortality and coronary heart disease
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
2009
Thromboembolic disease in vasculitis
Current Opinion in Rheumatology
2005
Dynamics of pneumococcal carriage among healthy Icelandic children attending day-care centres
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
1988
A Simple Staggered Finite Element Scheme for Simulation of Shallow Water Free Surface Flows
Developments in Water Science
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