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
Properties from DrugClass
`adverseDrugEvent`	AdverseDrugReaction or http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/62014003	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`	Drug or http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/410942007	Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure
Properties from MedicalEntity
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`belongsTo`	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`	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`	MedicalEntity	Causality score or ranking following a codified system (like HL7 causalityExpectation) or not.
`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.
`dateTime`	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`	QuantitativeValue	Typically derived from W3C Time Ontology this describes a time interval when an event or action occurs.
`medicalDepartment`	MedicalDepartment	Specifying the medical department where a procedure or a care event is taking place or attended by a patient.
`medicalScore`	MedicalScore	Specifying a medical score resource
`medicineSystem`	MedicineSystem	The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc.
`physiologicalRole`	PhysiologicalEntity	Specifying any physiological role of something
`playsRole`	MedicalEntity	Specifying the role played by an agent
`possibleCause`	MedicalEntity	Specifying a possible cause of something
`rankOrder`	Number	The rank order number of something. Typically used together with schema:numerator and schema:denominator. eg. refill number 4 out of 10.
`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.
`severity`	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`	Number	Total number of something.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType`	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`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text	A short description of the item.
`image`	URL or ImageObject	URL of an image of the item.
`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, Freebase page, or official website.
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of DrugClass may appear as values for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
`drugClass`	Drug	The class of drug this belongs to (e.g., statins).

Acknowledgements

This class contains information contributed by WikiDoc.

Examples

Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

<h1>About High Blood Pressure (hypertension)</h1>
<h2>Diagnosis</h2>
High blood pressure is diagnosed by measuring ...
...
<h2>Treatment</h2>
There are many common treatments for high blood pressure,
including beta-blocker drugs such as propanaolol (Innopran)
and atenonlol (Tenormin) ...

<body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/MedicalWebPage">
  <link itemprop="audience" href="http://schema.org/Patient" />
  <link itemprop="specialty" href="http://schema.org/Cardiovascular" />
  <meta itemprop="lastReviewed" content="2011-09-14"/>
  <h1>About
    <span itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/MedicalCondition">
      <span itemprop="name">High Blood Pressure</span>
      (<span itemprop="name">hypertension</span>)</span>
  </h1>
  ...
  <h2><span itemprop="aspect">Diagnosis</span></h2>
  High blood pressure is diagnosed by measuring ...
  ...
  <h2><span itemprop="aspect">Treatment</span></h2>
  There are many common treatments for high blood pressure,
  including
  <span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/DrugClass">
    <span itemprop="name">beta-blocker</span> drugs such as
    <span itemprop="drug" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Drug">
      <span itemprop="nonProprietaryName">propanaolol</span>
      (<span itemprop="otherName">Innopran</span>)
    </span>
  and
    <span itemprop="drug" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Drug">
      <span itemprop="nonProprietaryName">atenolol</span>
      (<span itemprop="otherName">Tenormin</span>)
    </span> ...
  ...
</body>

<body vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="MedicalWebPage">
  <link property="audience" href="http://schema.org/Patient" />
  <link property="specialty" href="http://schema.org/Cardiovascular" />
  <meta property="lastReviewed" content="2011-09-14"/>
  <h1>About
    <span property="about"  typeof="MedicalCondition">
      <span property="name">High Blood Pressure</span>
      (<span property="name">hypertension</span>)</span>
  </h1>
  ...
  <h2><span property="aspect">Diagnosis</span></h2>
  High blood pressure is diagnosed by measuring ...
  ...
  <h2><span property="aspect">Treatment</span></h2>
  There are many common treatments for high blood pressure,
  including
  <span  typeof="DrugClass">
    <span property="name">beta-blocker</span> drugs such as
    <span property="drug"  typeof="Drug">
      <span property="nonProprietaryName">propanaolol</span>
      (<span property="otherName">Innopran</span>)
    </span>
  and
    <span property="drug"  typeof="Drug">
      <span property="nonProprietaryName">atenolol</span>
      (<span property="otherName">Tenormin</span>)
    </span> ...
  ...
</body>

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "http://schema.org",
  "@type": "MedicalWebPage",
  "about": {
    "@type": "MedicalCondition",
    "name": [
      "High Blood Pressure",
      "hypertension"
    ]
  },
  "aspect": [
    "Diagnosis",
    "Treatment"
  ],
  "audience": "http://schema.org/Patient",
  "drug": [
    {
      "@type": "Drug",
      "nonProprietaryName": "propanaolol",
      "otherName": "Innopran"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Drug",
      "nonProprietaryName": "atenolol",
      "otherName": "Tenormin"
    }
  ],
  "lastReviewed": "2011-09-14",
  "name": "beta-blocker",
  "specialty": "http://schema.org/Cardiovascular"
}
</script>

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