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Hospital Privado
Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, also Hospital Privado Centro Medico de Cordoba S.A., a private high-complexity hospital in Córdoba, Argentina, opened 1957, JCI-accredited, with 572 beds and a transplant and oncology referral network.
Hospital to Home Transition
Hospital to home transition (care transitions, transitional care): the risky discharge handoff where patients resume self-management. Key models are Coleman's Care Transitions Intervention and Naylor's Transitional Care Model; readmission reduction evidence favors low-complexity interventions.
Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria
Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria (HUSM), UFSM's teaching hospital in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: founded 1970, campus building opened 1982, 380 beds, 100% SUS, regional reference for 43 municipalities.
Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM, now Hospital Pakar USM/HPUSM) is the teaching hospital of Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan; operating since 1983, opened 1984, referral center for Malaysia's east coast.
Hospital-acquired infection
Hospital-acquired infection (healthcare-associated infection, HAI): infection related to receiving healthcare in any setting. About 1 in 38 US hospital patients has one daily; common types include CLABSI, CAUTI, SSI, and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Hospitalization
Hospitalization is the confinement of a patient in a hospital (MeSH D006760), covering admission through discharge. Key distinction: inpatient versus observation status, which affects Medicare costs, skilled nursing coverage, and hospitalization-rate surveillance.
Hospitalization Insurance
Hospitalization insurance, also called hospital indemnity or group hospitalization, is health insurance covering or partly covering hospital expenses; in the US it also names Medicare Part A, and fixed indemnity versions pay set cash per admission.
Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, Montreal's first hospital, founded by Jeanne Mance in 1642 and run by the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph; moved to Mount Royal in 1861, merged into the CHUM in 1996, patients transferred 2017.
Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, traditionally founded by Saint Landry around 651/660, is the oldest hospital site in Paris, on the Île de la Cité beside Notre-Dame; now an AP-HP university hospital being transformed into the Nouvel Hôtel-Dieu.
Hotlines
A hotline is a direct communication channel, usually telephone, kept in readiness to provide immediate crisis assistance, counseling, referrals, and information, from suicide prevention to poison control and diplomatic use.
House Calls
House calls (home visits) are physician or clinician visits to a patient's home for diagnosis or treatment. Once 40% of US doctor visits in 1930, they fell below 1% by 1980 and revived as home-based primary care and virtual house calls.
Housing Quality
Housing quality: physical condition of a home plus its social and physical environment (MeSH, Healthy People 2030); linked to asthma, lead, injuries; measured by self-report, expert assessment, HHSRS, OHQS.
Houston Methodist
Houston Methodist: not-for-profit, faith-based academic health system founded 1919 as The Methodist Hospital by Oscar Norsworthy; flagship Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, eight acute-care hospitals, No. 1 hospital in Texas 15 years running.
Howard K. Koh
Howard K. Koh (Howard Kyongju Koh) is an American physician and Harvard public health professor who served as US Assistant Secretary for Health from 2009 to 2014.
Howard L. Bailit
Howard L. Bailit is an American dental public health researcher and professor at the University of Connecticut, known for studies of dental access and asthma care.
Howard University Hospital
Howard University Hospital (HUH), 2041 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC, is Howard University's 400-bed academic teaching hospital, opened 1975 to replace Freedmen's Hospital (1862); a new $650 million, 225-bed replacement is targeted for 2028.
HR-cSCC study
HR-cSCC (NCT05246228) is a prospective observational Italian study of 42 patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, testing whether post-radiotherapy lymphopenia (ALC below 500 cells/mL) predicts disease-free survival.
Huashan Hospital
Huashan Hospital (华山医院), Fudan University, Shanghai; founded 1907 as the Chinese Red Cross General Hospital, first Chinese-run hospital in Shanghai; tertiary Grade A, 3,142 beds, national centers for neurological and infectious diseases.
Human challenge study
A human challenge study, also called a controlled human infection study, deliberately infects volunteers with a known pathogen dose to test vaccines and treatments quickly.
Human resources for health
Human resources for health (HRH), also called the health workforce, is the stock of people engaged in protecting and improving health, a core building block of health systems.
Human subject research
Human subject research: systematic investigation involving living people contributing data or samples. Governed by the 1991 U.S. Common Rule (45 CFR 46), the 1979 Belmont Report, informed consent, and IRB review; FDA regulates clinical investigations separately.
Human waste
Human waste (human excreta) is feces and urine from human metabolism. Distinguished by pathogen load, nutrient content (4.5 kg N per person yearly), and sanitation systems: safely managed coverage reached 58% by 2024.
HYCOR study
HYCOR (Hybrid-sensor Breath Analysis for Colorectal Cancer Screening, NCT05173077) is a University of Latvia ERDF-funded project, 2021-2023, testing a MOX-plus-IR hybrid breath sensor analyzer and GC-MS VOC markers for colorectal cancer screening, distinct from the unrelated Hycor Biomedical allergy company.
Hygiene
Hygiene: conditions and practices maintaining health and preventing disease spread, covering hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, and WASH. Key facts: WHO-5 hospital strategy, 80% global basic hygiene coverage in 2024, 394,000 diarrhoea deaths from unsafe hand hygiene.
I-ACB trial
I-ACB trial (NCT07815730): Indian Asthma Care Bundle study by Ahmedabad University testing an India-specific post-discharge asthma care bundle against usual care in 260 adults, measuring readmission and ED visits at 30, 60, and 90 days.
i-RECORd study
i-RECORd (International REgistry of COnservative or Radical Treatment of Localized Kidney Tumors, NCT05363657) is a prospective observational registry led by Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi comparing partial nephrectomy, radical nephrectomy, ablation, active surveillance, and watchful waiting across 50 centers and about 10,000 patients.
IA trial
IA trial (NCT05358366), Infección de Amor (Love Infection): UNC-Chapel Hill randomized pilot of a four-episode, 10-minute online telenovela for HIV prevention among 58 Latinas in North Carolina; increased PrEP awareness, access, and self-efficacy.
ICSI study
ICSI (Pilot Italian Cardiogenic Shock Initiative, NCT06475456) is a Fondazione GISE observational study testing a SCAI-based spoke-hub cardiogenic shock protocol in Turin and Milan, comparing 30-day mortality in 768 AMICS patients across retrospective and prospective cohorts in 16 centers.
IDEAL trial (NCT03511482)
IDEAL (NCT03511482), Integrated Digitally Enhanced Care for Long-term Conditions-Asthma, a withdrawn UK feasibility trial of the myAsthma app with Lloyds Pharmacy Online Doctor remote consultations in primary care; stopped for lack of funding before results.
IDEATel trial
The IDEATel trial was a randomized controlled trial of telemedicine case management versus usual care in 1,665 older Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes in New York State.