MedicalGuideline

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Any recommendation made by a standard society (e.g. ACC/AHA) or consensus statement that denotes how to diagnose and treat a particular condition. Note: this type should be used to tag the actual guideline recommendation; if the guideline recommendation occurs in a larger scholarly article, use MedicalScholarlyArticle to tag the overall article, not this type. Note also: the organization making the recommendation should be captured in the recognizingAuthority base property of MedicalEntity.

Parent types

MedicalEntity

Properties

Properties for MedicalGuideline

Property	Expected type	Defined on	Description
evidenceLevel	MedicalEvidenceLevel	MedicalGuideline	Strength of evidence of the data used to formulate the guideline (enumerated).
evidenceOrigin	Text	MedicalGuideline	Source of the data used to formulate the guidance, e.g. RCT, consensus opinion, etc.
guidelineDate	Date	MedicalGuideline	Date on which this guideline's recommendation was made.
guidelineSubject	MedicalEntity	MedicalGuideline	The medical conditions, treatments, etc. that are the subject of the guideline.

Inherited properties

Property	Expected type	Inherited from	Description
additionalType	Text, URL	Thing	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
alternateName	Text	Thing	An alias for the item.
code	MedicalCode	MedicalEntity	A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc.
description	Text, TextObject	Thing	A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription	Text	Thing	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
funding	Grant	MedicalEntity	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
guideline	MedicalGuideline	MedicalEntity	A medical guideline related to this entity.
identifier	PropertyValue, Text, URL	Thing	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image	ImageObject, URL	Thing	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
legalStatus	DrugLegalStatus, MedicalEnumeration, Text	MedicalEntity	The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply.
mainEntityOfPage	CreativeWork, URL	Thing	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
medicineSystem	MedicineSystem	MedicalEntity	The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc.
name	Text	Thing	The name of the item.
owner	Organization, Person	Thing	A person or organization who owns this Thing.
potentialAction	Action	Thing	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
recognizingAuthority	Organization	MedicalEntity	If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
relevantSpecialty	MedicalSpecialty	MedicalEntity	If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant.
sameAs	URL	Thing	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
study	MedicalStudy	MedicalEntity	A medical study or trial related to this entity.
subjectOf	CreativeWork, Event	Thing	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url	URL	Thing	URL of the item.

Sub-types

MedicalGuidelineContraindication, MedicalGuidelineRecommendation

Example

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "MedicalGuideline",
  "name": "Example Name",
  "description": "A short description.",
  "url": "/example",
  "evidenceLevel": "Example value",
  "evidenceOrigin": "Example value"
}