MedicalTherapy

MedicalTherapy Type

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.

Own Properties

Properties of @schema/MedicalTherapy	Expected Type	Description
@schema/contraindication	@schema/Text or @schema/MedicalContraindication	A contraindication for this therapy.
@schema/duplicateTherapy	@schema/MedicalTherapy	A therapy that duplicates or overlaps this one.
@schema/seriousAdverseOutcome	@schema/MedicalEntity	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

Properties inherited from @schema/TherapeuticProcedure	Expected Type	Description
@schema/adverseOutcome	@schema/MedicalEntity	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 is otherwise life-threatening or requires immediate medical attention), tag it as a seriouseAdverseOutcome instead.
@schema/doseSchedule	@schema/DoseSchedule	A dosing schedule for the drug for a given population, either observed, recommended, or maximum dose based on the type used.
@schema/drug	@schema/Drug	Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure.

Properties inherited from @schema/MedicalProcedure	Expected Type	Description
@schema/bodyLocation	@schema/Text	Location in the body of the anatomical structure.
@schema/followup	@schema/Text	Typical or recommended followup care after the procedure is performed.
@schema/howPerformed	@schema/Text	How the procedure is performed.
@schema/preparation	@schema/MedicalEntity or @schema/Text	Typical preparation that a patient must undergo before having the procedure performed.
@schema/procedureType	@schema/MedicalProcedureType	The type of procedure, for example Surgical, Noninvasive, or Percutaneous.
@schema/status	@schema/EventStatusType , @schema/Text or @schema/MedicalStudyStatus	The status of the study (enumerated).

Properties inherited from @schema/MedicalEntity	Expected Type	Description
@schema/code	@schema/MedicalCode	A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc.
@schema/guideline	@schema/MedicalGuideline	A medical guideline related to this entity.
@schema/legalStatus	@schema/MedicalEnumeration , @schema/Text or @schema/DrugLegalStatus	The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply.
@schema/medicineSystem	@schema/MedicineSystem	The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc.
@schema/recognizingAuthority	@schema/Organization	If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
@schema/relevantSpecialty	@schema/MedicalSpecialty	If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant.
@schema/study	@schema/MedicalStudy	A medical study or trial related to this entity.

Properties inherited from @schema/Thing	Expected Type	Description
@schema/additionalType	@schema/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. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
@schema/alternateName	@schema/Text	An alias for the item.
@schema/description	@schema/Text	A description of the item.
@schema/disambiguatingDescription	@schema/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.
@schema/identifier	@schema/PropertyValue , @schema/URL or @schema/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.
@schema/image	@schema/ImageObject or @schema/URL	An image of the item. This can be a [[URL]] or a fully described [[ImageObject]].
@schema/mainEntityOfPage	@schema/CreativeWork or @schema/URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
@schema/name	@schema/Text	The name of the item.
@schema/potentialAction	@schema/Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
@schema/sameAs	@schema/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.
@schema/subjectOf	@schema/Event or @schema/CreativeWork	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
@schema/url	@schema/URL	URL of the item.