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Tejal Kanti Gandhi

Tejal Kanti Gandhi is an American physician-executive and patient-safety researcher who leads safety at Press Ganey and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Telehealth

Telehealth, also called telemedicine, is the delivery of health care services at a distance through telecommunications technology, including video visits, remote monitoring, diagnosis, and health education.

Telenurse-CKD trial

The Telenurse-CKD trial is a randomized controlled trial at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa testing nurse-led tele-nursing in 66 adults with stage 3-4 chronic kidney disease not yet on dialysis.

Telerehabilitation

Telerehabilitation (remote rehabilitation, teletherapy, virtual rehabilitation): delivery of rehabilitation services over a distance via ICT; synchronous, asynchronous, or hybrid; WFNR 2025 consensus definition; evidence of equivalence with in-person care.

TEMPLAR study

The TEMPLAR study, for Telemonitoring of Blood Pressure in Local phARmacies, is an Italian registry assessing ambulatory blood pressure control in community pharmacies, led by Stefano Omboni.

TENSINTEST study

The TENSINTEST study, or Angiotensin II Stress Test, is an observational trial at University Medical Centre Maribor, Slovenia, tracking renin changes during angiotensin II treatment of vasoplegic shock.

Tertiary Care Centers

Tertiary care centers, also called tertiary or referral hospitals, are hospitals providing subspecialty expertise for patients referred from secondary care; key facts include MeSH definition, care pyramid position, quaternary extension, and global access figures.

Tertiary Health Care

Tertiary health care is the third tier of a health system: highly specialized consultative and hospital services such as organ transplantation and intensive care, provided at referral and teaching hospitals, usually on referral from primary and secondary care.

Tertiary Prevention

Tertiary prevention, the third prevention level after primary and secondary, applies supportive and rehabilitative services after disease is established to minimize morbidity, prevent complications, and maximize quality of life.

Test-negative design

The test-negative design is an observational study design for estimating vaccine effectiveness, comparing vaccination status of patients with the same illness who test positive versus negative.

Texas Children's Hospital

Texas Children's Hospital: not-for-profit pediatric hospital in Houston, founded 1954, Baylor College of Medicine teaching site, largest freestanding pediatric hospital in the US, top-ranked by U.S. News.

Texas Medical Center

The Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston is the world's largest medical complex: 1,345 acres, 61 member institutions including MD Anderson and Baylor College of Medicine, founded 1945 under Ernst Bertner, with 120,000 employees and 10 million patient visits yearly.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), founded 1969 as Texas Tech's School of Medicine and renamed 1979, is a separate multi-campus public health sciences university in West Texas with six schools, flagship in Lubbock, Carnegie R2 research designation.

The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University

The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学附属第一医院), founded 1910 in Guangzhou, is a top-tier tertiary Grade A teaching hospital with 36 national clinical key specialties, A++ performance ratings, and campuses in Yuexiu, Huangpu, and Nansha.

The Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology (NIO-PIB, Narodowy Instytut Onkologii), Poland's largest cancer center, successor of the 1932 Warsaw Radium Institute; four sites, 500+ clinical trials, first Polish OECI-accredited oncology center.

The Medical journal

The Medical Journal (ISSN 2694-3581 print, 2694-3611 electronic) is the quarterly, peer-reviewed periodical of the US Army Medical Center of Excellence, published by the Borden Institute, Fort Sam Houston, since 2020, continuing the U.S. Army Medical Department journal and indexed in MEDLINE.

The Royal Free Hospital

The Royal Free Hospital, founded by William Marsden in 1828 as London's first free hospital, moved from Gray's Inn Road to Pond Street, Hampstead in 1974; now part of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, founded 1941 in Houston's Texas Medical Center, is a top-ranked NCI comprehensive cancer hospital; U.S. News has ranked it No. 1 in U.S. cancer care for 12 consecutive years.

Theodore Cooper

Theodore Cooper (1928–1993) was an American physician and federal health official who directed the National Heart and Lung Institute and shaped the 1976 Medical Device Amendments.

Theodore G. Ganiats

Theodore G. Ganiats is an American family physician and outcomes researcher, professor emeritus of family medicine at UC San Diego, known for quality-of-life assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis.

Theresa Tam

Theresa Tam (Theresa Wing Sze Tam) is a Canadian physician and paediatric infectious disease specialist who served as Canada's Chief Public Health Officer from June 26, 2017 to June 2025, the first woman in the role, leading the COVID-19 response and vaccination campaign.

Thieme drug report (medizinische zeitschrift)

Thieme drug report (Deutsche Ausg.), a German serial title related to Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (DMW) in the NLM catalog; DMW, published by Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, since 1946, continues in part Medizinische Zeitschrift, ISSN 0012-0472.

Third plague pandemic

Third plague pandemic: the third of three Yersinia pestis pandemics, beginning in Yunnan, China, mid-19th century, reaching Hong Kong 1894; bacillus discovered by Yersin and Kitasato; killed over 12 million in India; ended circa 1952.

Thomas E. Bryant

Thomas E. Bryant is a public health practitioner-researcher whose 2019 study in DeLand, Florida, found providers knew Florida's prenatal HIV testing rule but often did not follow it.

Thomas E. Malone

Thomas E. Malone was an American biomedical research administrator who served as the sixth Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health from 1977 to 1986.

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, flagship of Jefferson Health at 111 S 11th St, Philadelphia; 717-bed academic Level I trauma center, founded 1825, second U.S. teaching hospital (1877), U.S. News top-10 PA hospital.

Thomas R. Fleming

Thomas R. Fleming is an American biostatistician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, co-developer of the O'Brien-Fleming method for early trial stopping and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Thorough QT study

A thorough QT study is a clinical trial measuring whether a new drug prolongs the ECG QT interval, the principal regulatory test under ICH E14 since 2005.

Tianjin Medical University

Tianjin Medical University (天津医科大学), founded 1951 in Tianjin as Tianjin Medical College, is a 211 Project and Double First-Class municipal medical university with 7 university hospitals, 106-country international enrollment, and ARWU 401-500 rank.

TIGER study

TIGER (Treatment In Geriatric Epilepsy Research) is a VA national retrospective study of new-onset epilepsy in veterans aged 66+, led by Mary Jo Pugh, documenting phenytoin-dominant, guideline-discordant prescribing and drug-interaction risk; distinct from the Scottish Tayside TIGER trial.