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REPRINT trial
REPRINT trial (NCT06302569, EU CT 2024-511587-93-00): single-arm phase II study of pembrolizumab plus enfortumab vedotin in rare collecting duct and renal medullary kidney carcinoma, 23 patients, primary endpoint objective response rate, Milan sponsor.
Rescue Work
Rescue work is the effort to free people or animals trapped by accidents, fires, floods, earthquakes, and other disasters, usually performed by teams and not restricted to organized services.
Residence Characteristics
Residence characteristics: MeSH descriptor (D012111, introduced 1968) covering elements of residence that characterize a population, including housing, home environment, neighborhood characteristics, and residential segregation, used in health services and neighborhood-effects research.
Residential Facilities
Residential facilities (MeSH D012112): long-term care facilities providing supervision and assistance with activities of daily living, with medical and nursing services when required; includes assisted living, group homes, halfway houses, and homes for the aged.
Resource-Limited Settings
Resource-limited settings, also called low resource settings, are environments where quality critical care is constrained by shortages of staff, infrastructure, and evidence, affecting over two-thirds of the world's population.
Respiratory care
Respiratory care: the healthcare discipline of respiratory therapists who evaluate, treat, and manage cardiopulmonary disorders from neonates to geriatric patients under medical direction; defined by the AARC scope of practice and advanced practice (APRT) standards.
Retention in Care
Retention in care (HIV): continued routine engagement in HIV medical care after linkage, a key care-continuum step. Measured by missed-visit, kept-visit, and WHO ART.5 cohort indicators; US 2024 retention 56%.
ReTIDES trial
ReTIDES (Regional Expansion of TIDES), NCT00119028, was a VA implementation project spreading the TIDES collaborative care model for depression to new VA networks, later marked withdrawn with zero enrollment.
RETSEACSII trial
RETSEACSII (NCT05740059) is a completed single-center randomized trial at University Hospital, Montpellier, testing SvO2-adjusted restrictive red-cell transfusion (Hb <9 g/dL plus central SvO2 ≤65%) versus standard restrictive transfusion in 676 on-pump cardiac surgery patients.
RHINE trial
RHINE (NCT03622593, GR40398) is a phase 3, double-masked trial of faricimab versus aflibercept in diabetic macular edema; 951 patients, three arms including personalized treatment interval up to every 16 weeks, run with YOSEMITE.
Rhode Island Hospital
Rhode Island Hospital, founded in 1863 in Providence, is Rhode Island's largest hospital, the state's only Level I trauma center, and Brown University's principal teaching hospital.
RHYTHM DETECT study
RHYTHM DETECT (NCT02275637), an Italian prospective multicenter registry sponsored by Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia since September 2014, enrolls up to 10,000 unselected ICD recipients to find predictors of appropriate and inappropriate shock therapy, with substudies on S-ICD outcomes.
Ricardo Martinez (emergency physician)
Ricardo Martinez is an American emergency physician and injury-prevention researcher who served as NHTSA Administrator from 1994 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2004.
Richard A. Berman
Richard A. Berman is an American academic executive and health-policy administrator at the University of South Florida and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Richard D. Krugman
Richard D. Krugman is an American pediatrician in child abuse and neglect medicine who served as dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine from 1992 to 2015.
Richard Horton (medical journal editor)
Richard Charles Horton, born in 1961, is a British physician and Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet since 1995, known as an activist editor and recipient of the 2019 Roux Prize.
RIGID-TyG study
RIGID-TyG (NCT07589374), the Cf-PWV and TyG Index Study, is a Brazilian observational cross-sectional study at Hospital de Base, São José do Rio Preto, correlating carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity with the triglyceride-glucose index in 800 adults aged 18–65.
Rigshospitalet
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark's most specialized hospital, founded 1757 as Det Kongelige Frederiks Hospital by Frederik V, moved to Blegdamsvej in 1910, national referral hospital for Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands.
RIPT trial
RIPT (NCT03070834) was a 42-patient single-center Canadian randomized feasibility trial of retrievable inferior vena cava filters versus no filter in high-risk trauma patients unable to receive anticoagulation, showing reduced unprotected time (25.5 vs 78.2 hours).
Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey is an American geriatrician who was president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 2003 to 2017, its first woman and first African American leader.
Risk factor
Risk factor: an epidemiology term for a behavior, exposure, or hereditary characteristic associated with increased disease occurrence; also called predictor. Distinguished from causal factors; Framingham popularized the term in 1961.
Rita K. Chow
Rita K. Chow, also known as Rita Kathleen Chow, is a Chinese American nurse and retired U.S. Public Health Service officer known for aging-inmate hospice care.
Riverview Hospital (Coquitlam)
Riverview Hospital, also known as Essondale, was British Columbia's psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam from 1913 to 2012, peaking above 4,700 patients before deinstitutionalization; its lands are now səmiq̓wəʔelə.
ROAR 3 trial
ROAR 3 (NCT07476430), Readiness Outcomes Affecting Return to Sport 3.0, is a Boston Children's Hospital randomized trial of mental skills training in 130 athletes aged 8-25 after ACL reconstruction, with ACSI-28 coping skills as the primary outcome.
Robert D. Sparks
Robert Dean Sparks (1932–2014) was an American physician and gastroenterologist who served as a Tulane medical school dean, UNMC chancellor, and president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Robert E. Patricelli
Robert E. Patricelli is an American health care executive and former federal official who founded Value Health, sold to Columbia HCA in 1997 for $1.4 billion.
Robert G. Petersdorf
Robert G. Petersdorf (1926–2006) was an American infectious-diseases physician who chaired medicine at the University of Washington and served as AAMC president from 1986 to 1994.
Robert Graham (physician)
Robert Graham is an American family physician who led the American Academy of Family Physicians from 1985 to 2000 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1990.
Robert H. Ebert
Robert H. Ebert, born Robert Higgins Ebert (1914–1996), was an American physician-investigator who served as dean of Harvard Medical School from 1966 to 1977 and led the Milbank Memorial Fund.
Robert J. Haggerty
Robert J. Haggerty (1925–2017) was an American pediatrician who chaired pediatrics at the University of Rochester and coined the "new morbidity" of childhood, covering mental health and chronic conditions.