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.

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from schema:MedicalTherapy
`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:contraindication`	schema:MedicalContraindication	A contraindication for this therapy.
`schema:duplicateTherapy`	schema:MedicalTherapy	A therapy that duplicates or overlaps this one.
`schema:indication`	schema:MedicalIndication	A factor that indicates use of this therapy for treatment and/or prevention of a condition, symptom, etc. For therapies such as drugs, indications can include both officially-approved indications as well as off-label uses. These can be distinguished by using the ApprovedIndication subtype of MedicalIndication.
`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.
Properties from schema:MedicalEntity
`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: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 from schema:Thing
`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 short description of the item.
`schema:image`	schema:ImageObject or schema:URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`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, Freebase page, or official website.
`schema:url`	schema:URL	URL of the item.

Instances of schema:MedicalTherapy may appear as values for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
`schema:availableService`	schema:MedicalClinic or schema:Hospital or schema:Physician	A medical service available from this provider.
`schema:duplicateTherapy`	schema:MedicalTherapy	A therapy that duplicates or overlaps this one.
`schema:possibleTreatment`	schema:MedicalSignOrSymptom or schema:MedicalCondition	A possible treatment to address this condition, sign or symptom.
`schema:primaryPrevention`	schema:MedicalCondition	A preventative therapy used to prevent an initial occurrence of the medical condition, such as vaccination.
`schema:relatedTherapy`	schema:AnatomicalStructure or schema:AnatomicalSystem or schema:SuperficialAnatomy	A medical therapy related to this anatomy.
`schema:secondaryPrevention`	schema:MedicalCondition	A preventative therapy used to prevent reoccurrence of the medical condition after an initial episode of the condition.

More specific Types

schema:DietarySupplement

schema:Drug

schema:DrugClass

schema:LifestyleModification

schema:PalliativeProcedure

schema:PhysicalTherapy

schema:PsychologicalTreatment

schema:RadiationTherapy

schema:TherapeuticProcedure

Prefixes used:

schema: http://schema.org/

Acknowledgements

This class contains information contributed by WikiDoc.

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