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Children's National
Children's National is a nonprofit pediatric academic health system in Washington, D.C., chartered in 1870, with 326 beds and a ranking among the top 10 children's hospitals nationally.
Children's Research Hospital
Children's Research Hospital (小児疾患研究施設, Kyoto Prefectural Children's Hospital) is the pediatric facility of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, completed November 1982, now part of a pediatric cancer core hospital with PICU and PCAT.
Cholera epidemic in the Balkan Wars
The cholera epidemic in the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 spread through the armies and civilians of the Balkans, prompting the first large-scale use of cholera vaccination in Greece.
Chongqing Medical University
Chongqing Medical University (重庆医科大学, CQMU) is a public medical university in Chongqing, China, founded in 1956 by faculty from Shanghai First Medical College and known for its 14 affiliated hospitals and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound therapy system.
Chorh-Chuan Tan
Chorh-Chuan Tan is a Singaporean nephrologist who led the 2003 SARS response and served as President of the National University of Singapore from 2008 to 2017.
Christine E. Dehlendorf
Christine E. Dehlendorf is a family physician and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on racial and socioeconomic disparities in family planning.
Christopher C. Fordham III
Christopher C. Fordham III (1926–2008) was an American physician who served as dean of the UNC School of Medicine and as UNC Chapel Hill's sixth chancellor.
Christopher Wright
Christopher Wright is an associate professor of STEM education at Drexel University who received the PECASE award for studying how African American boys develop engineering identities.
ChronicGI study
ChronicGI (Gut Microbiota in Chronic GI Diseases, NCT06532110) is a recruiting McMaster University observational cohort study of 260 people with IBD, IBS, celiac disease, microscopic colitis, or functional diarrhea versus controls, combining endoscopy biopsy microbiota sampling with germ-free mouse colonization experiments.
CHRONOHOSPI study
CHRONOHOSPI (NCT04113876), a Spanish multicenter observational study by Instituto de Salud Carlos III, measured circadian health and sleep in 975 hospitalized adults across 13 hospitals using Kronowise devices.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) is a nonprofit pediatric health system in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded 1883; home of the Sabin oral polio vaccine, second in NIH pediatric research funding, and a 20-year U.S. News Honor Roll hospital.
CIRENDO study
CIRENDO (North-West Inter Regional Female Cohort for Patients with Endometriosis, NCT02294825) is a French prospective cohort, G4-funded and coordinated by Horace Roman, registering surgically and histologically confirmed endometriosis patients since 2009 with questionnaire follow-up at 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.
City Of Hope National Medical Center
City of Hope National Medical Center, in Duarte, California, is the flagship hospital of City of Hope, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center founded in 1913 as a tuberculosis sanatorium, known for synthetic insulin, monoclonal antibodies, and bone marrow transplantation.
CKD-REIN study
CKD-REIN (Chronic Kidney Disease – Renal Epidemiology and Information Network) is a French prospective cohort of 3,033 adults with CKD stages 3–5 from 40 clinics (2013–2016), used for kidney failure risk prediction including KFRE eGFR-equation comparisons.
CKiD study
The CKiD study is a North American cohort study of children with chronic kidney disease that began in 2005 and produced widely used pediatric GFR estimating equations.
Claims database analysis
Claims database analysis is observational research using insurance billing records, generated for payment rather than research, to study health care utilization, costs, treatment patterns, and outcomes in epidemiology.
Cleaning
Cleaning: removal of soil, dirt, and germs from surfaces using water, soap, and scrubbing; distinct from sanitizing and disinfecting, which it should precede.
Cleanliness
Cleanliness is freedom from dirt and disease-causing microbes; hygiene is the practices reducing pathogen transmission. Covers handwashing mechanisms, 1.4 million WASH-preventable deaths, JMP hygiene ladders, ritual purity traditions, and 2025 WHO guidelines.
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic, also known as Cleveland Clinic Foundation, is a nonprofit academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1921 as a group practice and now a global health system with more than 65,000 caregivers.
CLIgAN trial
CLIgAN (NCT 04662723; EudraCT 2021-006854-29) is a pair of AIFA-authorized, open-label randomized phase III trials in IgA nephropathy testing biopsy-stratified personalized therapy: ACIgAN (corticosteroids plus RASB) and CHRONIgAN (dapagliflozin plus RASB).
Clinic
A clinic, or medical clinic, is a healthcare facility providing outpatient medical care, meaning examination, treatment, and advice without overnight admission, distinct from a hospital, which combines outpatient departments with inpatient beds.
Clinical coding
Clinical coding, also known as medical coding, is the health information practice of translating patient-record diagnoses and procedures into standardized codes that drive hospital reimbursement and research.
Clinical trial simulation
Clinical trial simulation is a modeling method in which virtual patients are generated, treated, and followed on a computer to predict how a planned trial would perform.
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov is a public website and database of clinical research studies and their results, maintained by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, launched in 2000 and listing over 604,000 studies worldwide.
Clinton health care plan of 1993
The Clinton health care plan of 1993, formally the Health Security Act and nicknamed Hillarycare, was a proposal guaranteeing universal health coverage that died in Congress in 1994.
CLIP trial
CLIP trial (Community Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia), NCT01911494: three cluster randomised trials in India, Pakistan, and Mozambique testing CHW-led, mHealth-guided pre-eclampsia care; no improvement in the primary composite outcome.
Cluster randomized controlled trial
A cluster randomized controlled trial is an experiment that randomly assigns entire groups, such as clinics, schools, or communities, rather than individuals, to intervention or control arms.
Cluster randomized design
A cluster randomized design is a comparative trial in which whole groups, such as clinics, schools, or communities, are randomly assigned to interventions, with outcomes measured in their members.
CMSI&Child trial
CMSI&Child (NCT06016296) is a Chilean randomized controlled trial testing a 12-week combined movement and storytelling intervention on motor skills, language, and physical activity in 144 children aged 3 to 6.
CO13Hepavih study
ANRS CO13 HEPAVIH, a French nationwide prospective cohort started in 2005 of HIV-HCV co-infected patients (about 1,859 enrolled), tracking liver disease, mortality, DAA treatment outcomes, and socio-behavioral determinants.