PalliativeProcedure
A medical procedure intended primarily for palliative purposes, aimed at relieving the symptoms of an underlying health condition.
| Property | Expected Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Properties from MedicalTherapy | ||
contraindication
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MedicalContraindication or Text | A contraindication for this therapy. |
duplicateTherapy
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MedicalTherapy | A therapy that duplicates or overlaps this one. |
seriousAdverseOutcome
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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 TherapeuticProcedure | ||
adverseOutcome
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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. |
doseSchedule
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DoseSchedule | A dosing schedule for the drug for a given population, either observed, recommended, or maximum dose based on the type used. |
drug
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Drug | Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure |
indication
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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. |
| Properties from MedicalProcedure | ||
bodyLocation
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Text | Location in the body of the anatomical structure. |
followup
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Text | Typical or recommended followup care after the procedure is performed. |
howPerformed
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Text | How the procedure is performed. |
indication
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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. |
outcome
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MedicalEntity or Text | Expected or actual outcomes of the study. |
preparation
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MedicalEntity or Text | Typical preparation that a patient must undergo before having the procedure performed. |
procedureType
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MedicalProcedureType | The type of procedure, for example Surgical, Noninvasive, or Percutaneous. |
status
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EventStatusType or MedicalStudyStatus or Text | The status of the study (enumerated). |
| Properties from MedicalEntity | ||
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. |
guideline
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MedicalGuideline | A medical guideline related to this entity. |
legalStatus
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DrugLegalStatus or MedicalEnumeration or Text | The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply. |
medicineSystem
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MedicineSystem | The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc. |
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. |
study
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MedicalStudy | A medical study or trial related to this entity. |
| 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 description of the item. |
disambiguatingDescription
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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
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PropertyValue or Text or URL | 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
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ImageObject or URL | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
mainEntityOfPage
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CreativeWork or URL | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity. |
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, Wikidata entry, or official website. |
subjectOf
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CreativeWork or Event | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. Inverse property: about. |
url
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URL | URL of the item. |