Publications by authors named "Katherine A Rowe"

Introduction: Meeting accreditation requirements to train resident physicians in quality improvement (QI) may require more than education. Barriers to resident QI engagement underscore the need to demonstrate the impact and value of resident QI work. It is not known whether a platform to track and publicise resident QI projects and scholarship is feasible or acceptable to implement within a residency programme.

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Introduction: Consensus is lacking regarding the optimal strategy to influence surgeons' behaviors to reduce low-value surgical care. Comprehensively describing the existing body of literature that seeks to intervene on surgeons' preoperative decision-making may aid in structuring future behavior change strategies.

Methods: We performed a scoping review using four databases (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Embase, Web of Science, and Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) for articles that tested the effect of behavioral-based interventions on any aspect of surgeons' decision-making in the preoperative setting.

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Context: Medical students are expected to gain competency in inquiring about patients' goals of care, per the Association of American Medical Colleges' Entrustable Professional Activities. While students may be part of teams that conduct routine code status discussions (CSDs), formal training in this skill prior to clinical clerkships is lacking.

Objectives: We aimed to address this training gap by designing a curriculum to teach preclinical medical students about routine CSDs.

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Background: The American College of Surgeons Geriatric Surgery Verification Program outlines best practices for surgical care in older adults. These recommendations have guided institutions to create workflows to better support needs specific to older surgical patients. This qualitative study explored clinician experiences to understand influences on implementation of frailty screening and an interdisciplinary care pathway in older elective colorectal surgery and neurosurgery patients.

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  • The study focused on how COVID-19 impacted the treatment of hip fractures in older adults during the first wave of the pandemic, analyzing surgical timing and patient outcomes.
  • Researchers compared a group of 64 patients treated for operative hip fractures during this period to historical controls, looking at factors such as 30-day mortality, complications, length-of-stay, and discharge outcomes.
  • Findings showed no significant differences in mortality or complications, but a higher percentage of patients were discharged home during COVID-19 (23.8%) compared to before (4.8%), indicating potential changes in discharge practices.
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The spring diatom bloom in the Arctic Ocean accounts for significant annual primary production leading to the most rapid annual drawdown of water-column pCO. Late-winter waters in the Atlantic Arctic & Subarctic Provinces (AASP) have lower silicic acid concentrations than nitrate, which suggests diatom blooms may deplete Si before N. Here we test a facet of the hypothesis that silicic acid limitation terminates the spring diatom bloom in the AASP and the sinking of the senescent and dead diatoms helps drive carbon sequestration.

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