Thing > MedicalEntity > MedicalIntangible > MedicalEnumeration > DrugClass
A class of medical drugs, e.g., statins. Classes can represent general pharmacological class, common mechanisms of action, common physiological effects, etc.
Property | Expected Type | Description |
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Properties from DrugClass | ||
adverseDrugEvent
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/62014003 or AdverseDrugReaction | Adverse drug events (ADEs) are defined as any injuries resulting from medication use, including physical harm, mental harm, or loss of function. ADEs, compared to medication errors, are a more direct measure of patient harm. |
drug
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/410942007 or Drug | Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure |
Properties from MedicalEntity | ||
alternateName
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Text | An alias for the item. |
belongsTo
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MedicalEntity | Specifying a resource to which another resource belongs. Typically here it's used to link a medicalRecord to the Patient where isPartOf can't be used'. e.g :MedicalRecord schema:belongsTo :Patient |
bodyPosition
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/364830008 | Specifying a position of human body or anatomical entity in given space e.g. Supine body position, standing position, sitting position etc. |
causalityStatus
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MedicalEntity | Causality score or ranking following a codified system (like HL7 causalityExpectation) or not. |
code
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MedicalCode | A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc. |
dateTime
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DateTime | Specifying an instant of something. Typically derived from W3C Time Ontology this describes a point in time when an event or action occurs. |
guideline
|
MedicalGuideline | A medical guideline related to this entity. |
interval
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QuantitativeValue | Typically derived from W3C Time Ontology this describes a time interval when an event or action occurs. |
medicalDepartment
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MedicalDepartment | Specifying the medical department where a procedure or a care event is taking place or attended by a patient. |
medicalScore
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MedicalScore | Specifying a medical score resource |
medicineSystem
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MedicineSystem | The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc. |
physiologicalRole
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PhysiologicalEntity | Specifying any physiological role of something |
playsRole
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MedicalEntity | Specifying the role played by an agent |
possibleCause
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MedicalEntity | Specifying a possible cause of something |
rankOrder
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Number | The rank order number of something. Typically used together with schema:numerator and schema:denominator. eg. refill number 4 out of 10. |
recognizingAuthority
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Organization | If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine. |
relevantSpecialty
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MedicalSpecialty | If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant. |
severity
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Severity | Specifying a severity evaluation of a disease: typically by classification resource or ranking scale: mild, moderate, severe, life threatening or fatal |
study
|
MedicalStudy | A medical study or trial related to this entity. |
totalValue
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Number | Total number of something. |
Properties from Thing | ||
additionalType
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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. |
alternateName
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Text | An alias for the item. |
description
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Text | A short description of the item. |
image
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URL or ImageObject | URL of an image of the item. |
name
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Text | The name of the item. |
potentialAction
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Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
sameAs
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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. |
url
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URL | URL of the item. |
Instances of DrugClass may appear as values for the following properties
Property | On Types | Description |
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drugClass
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Drug | The class of drug this belongs to (e.g., statins). |
Acknowledgements
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