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GESPIC study
GESPIC (German Spondyloarthritis Inception Cohort) is a prospective German multicentre cohort begun in 2000 following 525 patients with early axial spondyloarthritis for 10 years, with arms for juvenile, peripheral, Crohn's, uveitis, and axial psoriatic SpA.
GIM11-BERGI trial
GIM11-BERGI (NCT02175446) is an Italian Gruppo Italiano Mammella phase II single-arm trial of eribulin plus bevacizumab as second-line therapy for HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer after first-line paclitaxel-bevacizumab, reporting 24.6% response rate and 6.2-month median PFS.
Giselle Corbie
Giselle Corbie is an American physician and health equity researcher at the University of North Carolina, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
Global Burden of Disease Study
Global Burden of Disease (GBD), also called GBD Study: an IHME-led research program quantifying deaths, disability, and risk factors via DALYs for 204 countries, 1990–2023, distinct from WHO Global Health Estimates.
Global Health
Global health is a multidisciplinary field of study, research, and practice that aims to improve health and achieve health equity worldwide, emerging as a distinct field in the late 1990s.
Global heart
Global Heart: peer-reviewed open-access journal of the World Heart Federation, formerly CVD Prevention and Control, publishing cardiovascular prevention research focused on low- and middle-income countries; published by Ubiquity Press since 2020, ISSNs 2211-8160 and 2211-8179.
Global public health
Global public health: field studying health problems shaped by globalization, inequality, and migration; emerged as 'global health' replaced 'international health'; served by journals Global Public Health (2006) and PLOS Global Public Health (2021).
GLUTEN-GEN study
GLUTEN-GEN (NL-OMON53370) is a Dutch LUMC/ZonMw health services study adding finger-prick HLA-DQ2/8 typing from dried blood spots to celiac case finding at Youth Health Care Centres in Kennemerland, following GLUTENSCREEN; enrollment 508, recruitment stopped.
GNHS study
Guangzhou Nutrition and Health Study (GNHS, NCT03179657): a community-based prospective cohort of 5,118 adults in Guangzhou, China, run by Sun Yat-sen University since 2008, studying nutrition and metabolic disease with multi-omics.
GoDARTS study
GoDARTS (Genetics of Diabetes Audit and Research in Tayside Scotland), a 1998 University of Dundee cohort of 18,306 participants (10,149 type 2 diabetes cases, 8,157 controls) with DNA, linked NHS records, and ongoing recruitment.
Godfrey P. Oakley Jr.
Godfrey P. Oakley Jr. was an American epidemiologist and Emory professor who led the campaign that made the FDA require folic acid fortification of enriched grains to prevent spina bifida.
Governing Board
Governing board (also governing body): the group holding legal authority over a health care institution, responsible for strategy, oversight of management, quality of care, and compliance, assessed through board self-assessment and benchmarking.
Government General Hospital
Government General Hospital (Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital), Chennai: public teaching hospital founded 16 November 1664 for East India Company soldiers, attached to Madras Medical College since 1835, treating about 12,000 patients daily.
Government Regulation
Government regulation is the exercise of governmental authority to control conduct, covering the rules governments issue, the agencies that enforce them, and the procedures that hold both to account.
GRADE trial
GRADE trial (Glycemia Reduction Approaches in Diabetes) was a US comparative effectiveness study randomizing 5,047 metformin-treated type 2 diabetes patients to glargine, glimepiride, liraglutide, or sitagliptin; glargine and liraglutide best maintained HbA1c targets.
Grady Memorial Hospital
Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's first publicly funded hospital (1892), Georgia's largest hospital and safety-net Level I trauma center; distinct from OhioHealth's Grady Memorial Hospital in Delaware, Ohio.
Great Barrington Declaration
Great Barrington Declaration: open letter published October 5, 2020, by Kulldorff, Gupta, and Bhattacharya, opposing COVID lockdowns and proposing Focused Protection; answered by the John Snow Memorandum and Francis Collins's 'takedown' email.
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London children's hospital founded 14 February 1852 by Dr Charles West as the Hospital for Sick Children; first UK hospital for children, NHS Foundation Trust since 2012, CQC-rated Good, leading paediatric research centre.
Great Plague of Marseille
Great Plague of Marseille (1720-1722): last major plague epidemic of Western Europe, brought by the ship Grand Saint-Antoine from the Levant, killing about 100,000 people, nearly half of Marseille and a quarter of Provence.
Great Plague of Prague
The Great Plague of Prague was a bubonic plague epidemic that struck the Bohemian capital from spring to autumn 1680, killing between 7,000 and 12,000 people, one of the last plague epidemics in central Europe.
Great Plague of Seville
The Great Plague of Seville was an epidemic that struck the city from March to July 1649, killing about 60,000 people, roughly half its population.
Great Plague of Vienna
The Great Plague of Vienna was the bubonic plague epidemic that struck the Habsburg capital in 1679, killing roughly 12,000 or more of its 70,000 inhabitants.
GRID® study
The GRID study, Decipher Genomics Resource for Intelligent Discovery, is an observational registry started in 2015 that links Decipher prostate cancer test RNA data with patient outcomes.
Groote Schuur Hospital
Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH), Cape Town's premier public tertiary academic hospital and UCT's main teaching hospital, opened 1938; site of the world's first human heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard on 3 December 1967.
Group Practice
Group practice: three or more physicians in a legally recognized entity sharing space, equipment, personnel, records, and income distribution. Covers forms, history, quality evidence versus solo practice, and US trends.
Group sequential design
A group sequential design is a clinical trial design allowing interim analyses with early stopping for efficacy, futility, or safety at a controlled error rate.
GSI study
GSI study (NCT02735824), Genetic Study of Immunodeficiency, is a Swiss observational study led by University Children's Hospital Zurich, enrolling 500 suspected primary immunodeficiency patients plus relatives to find genetic causes, running 2016 to 2027.
GSS trial
The GSS trial, or Good Schools Study, was a cluster randomized trial in 42 Ugandan primary schools that found the Good School Toolkit cut staff violence by 42%.
Guideline Adherence
Guideline adherence: conformity of health organizations and professionals to clinical guidelines, protocols, and standards (MeSH D019983, 1998). Distinct from patient compliance; measured via surveys, chart review, and rule-based alignment; rates range 1–100% across studies.
Guillermo Soberon
Guillermo Soberón (Guillermo Soberón Acevedo) was a Mexican physician and biochemist, rector of UNAM from 1973 to 1981 and Mexico's health minister from 1982 to 1988, who founded FUNSALUD.