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Drew E. Altman
Drew E. Altman is an American health policy expert who founded and has led KFF for more than 30 years and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
DROP study
DROP study (Discharge Recommendations for Older Adults Using Physical Outcome Measure, NCT06903832): observational NUH Singapore study testing Sit to Stand and Gait Speed Tests for physiotherapist discharge planning in hospitalized adults 65+, distinct from the DROP deprescribing trial.
Drug Costs
Drug costs: amounts paid for medicines, formally the amount a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs (MeSH D016527). Covers list price (WAC), net price after rebates, US spending near $1 trillion, and international price gaps.
Drug Legislation
Drug legislation is the body of statutes governments use to control the testing, approval, labeling, and surveillance of medicines, centered in the US on the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the FDA.
Drug Substitution
Drug substitution is the practice of replacing a prescribed drug with another expected to produce an equivalent effect, either a generic equivalent or a chemically different therapeutic alternative.
Drug utilization study
A drug utilization study examines the marketing, distribution, prescription, and use of drugs in a society, emphasizing their medical, social, and economic consequences to inform pharmaceutical policy.
Durable Medical Equipment
Durable medical equipment (DME) is reusable home-use medical equipment such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, and oxygen equipment, defined for Medicare by 42 CFR 414.202's five conditions and paid under Part B with 20% coinsurance.
e-Health trial
e-Health trial (NCT02980237, e-Health Education Program at Workplace): Brazilian cluster randomized controlled trial testing nine Moodle video classes on musculoskeletal, dietary, and mental health for office workers; tutor support added no benefit over the conventional program.
e-Resiliencia trial
The e-Resiliencia trial tested a web-based training tool that equips healthcare middle managers in Spain's Valencian Community to strengthen their teams' resilience in critical situations.
E3N study
E3N (Étude Épidémiologique auprès de femmes de la MGEN) is a French prospective cohort of 98,995 women born 1925–1950, followed since 1990; French component of EPIC, studying lifestyle, diet, environment, and women's health, with the E3N-Générations family extension.
Ear Protective Devices
Ear protective devices (hearing protection devices, HPDs): earplugs, earmuffs, and canal caps that reduce sound reaching the eardrum. Rated by NRR; real-world attenuation verified by fit testing (PAR); NIOSH recommends quantitative fit testing since 2025.
EARTH study
The Environment and Reproductive Health (EARTH) Study is a preconception cohort study at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston investigating how environmental, nutritional, and lifestyle factors affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes.
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC), Bangor, Maine; founded 1892 as Bangor General Hospital; flagship of Northern Light Health; Level 2 Trauma Center, Stroke Center of Excellence, 411 beds.
Ebola in Uganda
Ebola in Uganda refers to the recurring Ebola virus disease outbreaks Uganda has experienced since the first confirmed episode in Gulu District in 2000, caused successively by Sudan, Bundibugyo, and Zaire ebolaviruses.
Ebola virus cases in the United States
Ebola virus cases in the United States: 11 patients treated in 2014–2016, including Thomas Eric Duncan and the first domestically acquired cases (nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson) in Dallas, plus aid worker Craig Spencer in New York.
EBOVAC3DRC trial
EBOVAC3DRC (EBL2007, NCT04186000) is an open-label Phase 2 trial of the two-dose Ad26.ZEBOV plus MVA-BN-Filo Ebola vaccine regimen, with optional Ad26 boosters, in health care providers in Boende, DRC, under the EBOVAC3/IMI2 project.
ECHOPP study
ECHOPP (NCT04348734), Management of Parapneumonic Pleurisy Guided by an Early Pleural Ultrasound: completed French prospective multicentre observational cohort of 115 adults with pneumonia, testing daily pleural ultrasound for 96 hours with an algorithm-guided drainage strategy.
ECLIPSE study
ECLIPSE (Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate End-points) was a GlaxoSmithKline-funded, 3-year observational cohort study (NCT00292552) of 2,164 COPD patients plus controls, which established COPD heterogeneity, the frequent exacerbator phenotype, biomarkers, and 8-year mortality markers.
Ecological study
An ecological study is an observational epidemiological design in which exposures or outcomes are measured and compared for populations or groups rather than individuals, cheaply using existing data.
Edgar B. Jackson Jr.
Edgar B. Jackson Jr. was an American internist who became the first African American chief of staff at a major academic medical center, at Cleveland's University Hospitals in 1997.
EDUQ-CPNE trial
EDUQ-CPNE (NCT02311829), a French multicenter randomized trial sponsored by Central Hospital, Nancy, testing psychologist telephone follow-up (DST) versus usual care on quality of life in video-EEG-confirmed psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
Edward B. Perrin
Edward B. Perrin is an American biostatistician, first chair of the University of Washington's Department of Biostatistics and a former director of the National Center for Health Statistics.
Edward J. Connors
Edward J. Connors was an American health-system executive who led Mercy Health Services in Michigan from 1976 to 1993 and chaired the American Hospital Association board in 1989.
Edward J. Stemmler
Edward J. Stemmler (1929–2023) was an American physician and dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine who led national medical education and physician assessment.
Edward R.B. McCabe III
Edward R.B. McCabe III is an American pediatrician and molecular geneticist who discovered glycerol kinase deficiency, pioneered DNA extraction from newborn screening blood spots, and led national screening policy.
Edwin Mercado
Edwin Mercado (Edwin M. Mercado), Filipino physician and orthopedic surgeon, appointed Philippine Department of Health Secretary in August 2026; previously acting PhilHealth president and CEO from February 2025 and hospital executive.
EEG-THOP study
EEG-THOP (NCT03493113), a retrospective observational study by UZ Leuven, compared EEG maturation, interburst intervals, and sleep-wake cycling in 87 preterm infants with and without transient hypothyroxinemia of prematurity.
EIRA trial
EIRA trial (NCT03136211): Spanish cluster-randomised hybrid type 2 trial in 25 primary care centres, 3062 adults 45-75, testing a Transtheoretical Model multiple health behaviour change intervention for smoking, diet, and physical activity versus usual care.
Elderly care
Elderly care (long-term care for older people) covers personal, social, and medical support for older adults losing capacity. Key facts: informal care is up to 80% of European LTC, 80+ population to triple to 426 million by 2050, and LTC workers average 5 per 100 people 65+ in OECD countries.
Electromagnetic radiation and health
Electromagnetic radiation and health: how ionizing radiation (X-rays, gamma) and non-ionizing radiation (radiofrequency, power fields) affect the body, dose thresholds, cancer evidence, IARC Group 2B, and ICNIRP exposure limits.