MedicalTherapy

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Any medical intervention designed to prevent, treat, and cure human diseases and medical conditions, including both curative and palliative therapies. Medical therapies are typically processes of care relying upon pharmacotherapy, behavioral therapy, supportive therapy (with fluid or nutrition for example), or detoxification (e.g. hemodialysis) aimed at improving or preventing a health condition.

Parent types

TherapeuticProcedure

Properties

Properties for MedicalTherapy

Property	Expected type	Defined on	Description
contraindication	MedicalContraindication, Text	MedicalTherapy	A contraindication for this therapy.
duplicateTherapy	MedicalTherapy	MedicalTherapy	A therapy that duplicates or overlaps this one.
seriousAdverseOutcome	MedicalEntity	MedicalTherapy	A possible serious complication and/or serious side effect of this therapy. Serious adverse outcomes include those that are life-threatening; result in death, disability, or permanent damage; require hospitalization or prolong existing hospitalization; cause congenital anomalies or birth defects; or jeopardize the patient and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes in this definition.

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.
adverseOutcome	MedicalEntity	TherapeuticProcedure	A possible complication and/or side effect of this therapy. If it is known that an adverse outcome is serious (resulting in death, disability, or permanent damage; requiring hospitalization; or otherwise life-threatening or requiring immediate medical attention), tag it as a seriousAdverseOutcome instead.
alternateName	Text	Thing	An alias for the item.
bodyLocation	Text	MedicalProcedure	Location in the body of the anatomical structure.
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.
doseSchedule	DoseSchedule	TherapeuticProcedure	A dosing schedule for the drug for a given population, either observed, recommended, or maximum dose based on the type used.
drug	Drug	TherapeuticProcedure	Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure.
followup	Text	MedicalProcedure	Typical or recommended followup care after the procedure is performed.
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.
howPerformed	Text	MedicalProcedure	How the procedure is performed.
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.
preparation	MedicalEntity, Text	MedicalProcedure	Typical preparation that a patient must undergo before having the procedure performed.
procedureType	MedicalProcedureType	MedicalProcedure	The type of procedure, for example Surgical, Noninvasive, or Percutaneous.
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.
status	EventStatusType, MedicalStudyStatus, Text	MedicalProcedure	The status of the study (enumerated).
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

OccupationalTherapy, PalliativeProcedure, PhysicalTherapy, RadiationTherapy

Example

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "MedicalTherapy",
  "name": "Example Name",
  "description": "A short description.",
  "url": "/example",
  "contraindication": "Example value",
  "duplicateTherapy": "Example value"
}