Publications by authors named "Katherine B Lee"

Background: Scholarly activity is a requirement for accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. There is currently no uniform definition used by all Residency Review Committees (RRCs). A total of 6 of the 27 RRCs currently have a rubric or draft of a rubric to evaluate scholarly activity.

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Purpose: We tested the significance of associations among students' demographics, communication styles, and feedback received during clerkships.

Methods: US medical students who completed at least one required clinical clerkship were invited between April and July 2006 to complete an anonymous, online survey inquiring about demographics, communication styles (assertiveness and reticence), feedback (positive and negative), and clerkship grades. The effects of self-identified race/ethnicity, gender, and generation (immigrant, first- or second-generation American) and their 2-way interactions on assertiveness, reticence, total positive and total negative feedback comments were tested using factorial analysis of covariance, controlling for age, clerkship grades, and mother's and father's education; pairwise comparisons used simple contrasts.

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Background: Multicomponent Check-It-Out project interventions were found to be effective at increasing thorough skin self-examinations (TSSE). Application of this research will benefit from determining the most important interventions for promoting TSSE.

Objective: Identification of the most important Check-It-Out intervention components for promoting TSSE.

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Diphenyl difluoroketone (EF24), a molecule having structural similarity to curcumin, was reported to inhibit proliferation of a variety of cancer cells in vitro. However, the efficacy and in vivo mechanism of action of EF24 in gastrointestinal cancer cells have not been investigated. Here, we assessed the in vivo therapeutic effects of EF24 on colon cancer cells.

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Objectives: Because clinical clerkship grades are associated with resident selection and performance and are largely based on residents'/attendings' subjective ratings, it is important to identify variables associated with clinical clerkship grades.

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Objective: The purpose of the current study was to review characteristics of patients with nipple discharge who underwent ductoscopy-assisted excisional biopsy who had a final diagnosis of carcinoma.

Methods: A retrospective review was performed of patients presenting with pathologic nipple discharge (PND) who underwent ductoscopy-assisted excisional biopsy and had a final diagnosis of carcinoma.

Results: A total of 14 (7%) of 188 patients who underwent ductoscopy-assisted excision had a final pathology of ductal carcinoma-in-situ (DCIS) (12/14, 86%) or invasive breast cancer with DCIS (2/14, 14%).

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The goal of this research was to determine if race, independent of socioeconomic status, is a prognostic indicator for women diagnosed with infiltrating breast cancer. We hypothesized that black patients would present with breast cancers having less favorable prognostic indicators relative to white patients, regardless of socioeconomic status. Using data collected prospectively in our institutional review board approved breast center patient registry and 2000 Census Tract data for northeastern Ohio, we compared tumor size, node status, hormone receptor status, clinical outcomes, and socioeconomic status for patients who were self-described as either black or white and who had been diagnosed with infiltrating breast cancer.

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Background: Core needle breast biopsy (CB) has replaced excisional biopsy as the initial diagnostic biopsy procedure for many suspicious breast lesions; however, CB remains a sampling procedure. The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of agreement between histology obtained at CB and that obtained at a subsequent excisional procedure (EP). We hypothesized a high degree of agreement.

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Background: The purpose of this study was to determine whether ultrasound-guided core breast biopsy accurately predicts the histologic finding of a subsequent excisional procedure.

Methods: Data were collected prospectively from 1997 to 2001 for 832 ultrasound-guided core breast biopsies (USB) that were followed by excisional breast procedure (EP) within 1 year at our institution. The principal histologic finding obtained at USB and EP was identified for each procedure and the degree of agreement was assessed.

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