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Denis A. Cortese
Denis A. Cortese is an American physician in pulmonary and critical-care medicine who served as President and CEO of the Mayo Clinic from 2002 to 2009.
Dennis S. O’Leary
Dennis Sophian O'Leary (1937–2023) was an American physician-executive who served 21 years as president of the Joint Commission, the private accreditor of US health care organizations.
Dental Clinics
Dental clinics are facilities delivering organized oral health care in private, school, community health center, and portable settings, governed by CDC instrument sterilization classes, income-based access programs, and teledentistry policy.
Dental Health Surveys
Dental health surveys are organized collections of data on dental and oral health and disease in a population of a specified geographic region, underpinning national and global oral disease estimates.
Dental Insurance
Dental insurance is coverage that pays part of the cost of dental care through employer plans, government programs, or individual policies, usually sold separately from medical insurance.
Department of Health (Dublin, IE)
The Department of Health (An Roinn Sláinte) is the Irish government department responsible for health policy, established in 1947 and headquartered in Dublin, overseeing bodies including the Health Service Executive.
Department of Health (Philippines)
Department of Health (Kagawaran ng Kalusugan, DOH), the Philippine executive department running national health policy, hospitals, and Universal Health Care implementation; founded 1898, 2026 budget Php 253.8 billion, led by Secretary Edwin Mercado.
Department of Health (Pretoria, ZA)
The National Department of Health is South Africa's government department responsible for the national health system, headquartered in Pretoria and guided by the National Health Act of 2003.
Department of Health (Taipei, TW)
Department of Health, Taipei City Government (臺北市政府衛生局), the city's first-level public health agency with 9 divisions and 6 offices, overseeing Taipei City Hospital and 12 district health centers; reorganized in 2005 and 2017.
Department of Health (Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES)
Department of Health (Departamento de Salud, Osasun Saila) of the Basque Government, headquartered in Vitoria-Gasteiz. It directs Basque health policy and Osakidetza-Servicio Vasco de Salud; minister Alberto Martínez Ruiz since June 2024.
Department of Health and Social Care
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is the UK government department responsible for England's health and care system, with planned spending of £215.6 billion in 2025-26.
DEPRESS/PHQ-9 study
DEPRESS/PHQ-9 (NCT06702761) is an Al-Nahrain University observational cross-sectional study estimating prevalence and severity of depression among cardiothoracic surgery healthcare workers in Baghdad, Iraq, using the self-administered PHQ-9, with about 200 participants recruited at one Baghdad site from December 2024.
Design Interactive
Design Interactive is an Orlando, Florida human-systems engineering firm founded in 1998 by Kay M. Stanney, building AR/VR training systems for military, medical, and aerospace customers.
DESIR study
DESIR (DEvenir des Spondylarthropathies Indifférenciées Récentes) is a French inception cohort of 708 patients with recent-onset axial spondyloarthritis, recruited 2007-2010, used to validate ASAS criteria and track 10-year outcomes.
Desirability of outcome ranking
Desirability of outcome ranking (DOOR) is a patient-centric clinical trial endpoint that ranks each patient's overall outcome, combining benefits and harms, and compares treatments by the probability of a more desirable outcome.
Diagnostic Services
Diagnostic services: organized health services providing diagnosis (MeSH D003954, 1968), spanning laboratory, imaging, screening, and point-of-care testing; influence about 70% of healthcare decisions yet receive 3–5% of budgets.
Diagnostic trial
A diagnostic trial is a clinical study that measures how well a diagnostic test distinguishes patients with a target condition, comparing its results against a reference standard.
Diane Rowland
Diane Rowland is an American health policy scholar who led the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured for 25 years and chaired MACPAC from 2009 to 2015.
Diane Santa Maria
Diane Santa Maria is an American nurse-scientist and public health researcher who serves as dean of Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston, studying HIV and substance use prevention among homeless youth.
Dietary diversity score
A dietary diversity score (DDS) counts the number of food groups a person or household ate over 24 hours, used as a simple proxy for diet quality.
Differentiated service delivery (HIV care)
Differentiated service delivery (DSD) is a person-centered approach that adapts HIV services across the care cascade; by 2023, 76% of ART patients in 21 sub-Saharan African countries used it.
Digital contact tracing
Digital contact tracing is a public health surveillance method that uses smartphone apps, mostly Bluetooth-based, to notify people exposed to an infectious disease so they can test and isolate.
Digital Health
Digital health is the use of digital technologies to improve health, an umbrella term the World Health Organization applies to eHealth, mHealth, telemedicine, big data, genomics, and artificial intelligence.
Dignity of risk
Dignity of risk, also called the right to take reasonable risks, is a care ethics principle coined by Robert Perske in 1972 for people with intellectual disabilities, now embedded in disability and aged care law including Australia's Aged Care Act 2024.
DIGS study
The Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study (DIGS) is a longitudinal cohort study at the University of California, San Diego, running since 1995 to find the best methods for detecting glaucoma progression.
DIMOSPAF study
DIMOSPAF (NCT02563379) is a registered observational study by Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, testing whether abnormal 24-hour blood pressure dipping and morning surge associate with silent paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in hypertension; no results posted.
DINE study
DINE study (Developmental Impact of NICU Exposures), an NIH ECHO cohort of ~800 preterm children from four parent studies (PROP, TOLSURF, PENUT, NICU-HEALTH), recruited 2010–2020, studying NICU phthalate, metal, and environmental exposures and long-term neurodevelopment; distinct from DINE-Normal, DINE-CD, and prostate DINE trials.
DIRECT-MT trial
DIRECT-MT (NCT03469206) was a 656-patient Chinese noninferiority trial showing endovascular thrombectomy alone was noninferior to thrombectomy plus intravenous alteplase for 90-day outcomes in anterior large-vessel occlusion stroke.
Directly observed therapy
Directly observed therapy (DOT) is a treatment adherence strategy in which a trained observer watches a patient take medication, used chiefly in tuberculosis care worldwide.
Directly observed therapy, short course
Directly observed therapy, short course (DOTS) is a tuberculosis control strategy in which health workers watch patients take a standardized six- to eight-month drug regimen, recommended by WHO since 1991.