MedicalObservationalStudy
An observational study is a type of medical study that attempts to infer the possible effect of a treatment through observation of a cohort of subjects over a period of time. In an observational study, the assignment of subjects into treatment groups versus control groups is outside the control of the investigator. This is in contrast with controlled studies, such as the randomized controlled trials represented by MedicalTrial, where each subject is randomly assigned to a treatment group or a control group before the start of the treatment.
Properties from MedicalObservationalStudy
Properties from MedicalStudy
| Property |
Expected Type |
Description |
| healthCondition |
MedicalCondition |
Specifying the health condition(s) of a patient, medical study, or other target audience. |
| sponsor |
Person, Organization |
A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event. |
| status |
MedicalStudyStatus, Text, EventStatusType |
The status of the study (enumerated). |
| studyLocation |
AdministrativeArea |
The location in which the study is taking/took place. |
| studySubject |
MedicalEntity |
A subject of the study, i.e. one of the medical conditions, therapies, devices, drugs, etc. investigated by the study. |
Properties from MedicalEntity
| Property |
Expected Type |
Description |
| code |
MedicalCode |
A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc. |
| funding |
Grant |
A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. |
| guideline |
MedicalGuideline |
A medical guideline related to this entity. |
| legalStatus |
MedicalEnumeration, DrugLegalStatus, Text |
The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply. |
| medicineSystem |
MedicineSystem |
The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc. |
| recognizingAuthority |
Organization |
If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine. |
| relevantSpecialty |
MedicalSpecialty |
If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant. |
| study |
MedicalStudy |
A medical study or trial related to this entity. |
Properties from Thing
| Property |
Expected Type |
Description |
| additionalType |
Text, URL |
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 |
An alias for the item. |
| description |
TextObject, Text |
A description of the item. |
| disambiguatingDescription |
Text |
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. |
| identifier |
PropertyValue, URL, Text |
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 |
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
| mainEntityOfPage |
URL, CreativeWork |
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. |
| name |
Text |
The name of the item. |
| potentialAction |
Action |
Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
| sameAs |
URL |
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. |
| subjectOf |
CreativeWork, Event |
A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. |
| url |
URL |
URL of the item. |