MedicalObservationalStudy

An observational study is a type of medical study that attempts to infer the possible effect of a treatment through observation of a cohort of subjects over a period of time. In an observational study, the assignment of subjects into treatment groups versus control groups is outside the control of the investigator. This is in contrast with controlled studies, such as the randomized controlled trials represented by MedicalTrial, where each subject is randomly assigned to a treatment group or a control group before the start of the treatment.

Type Information

• Parent Type: MedicalStudy
• Schema.org URL: https://schema.org/MedicalObservationalStudy

Properties

| Property | Expected Type | Description | |----------|---------------|-------------| | studyDesign | MedicalObservationalStudyDesign | Specifics about the observational study design (enumerated). |

Properties from MedicalStudy

| Property | Expected Type | Description | |----------|---------------|-------------| | status | EventStatusType or MedicalStudyStatus or Text | The status of the study (enumerated). | | healthCondition | MedicalCondition | Specifying the health condition(s) of a patient, medical study, or other target audience. | | studyLocation | AdministrativeArea | The location in which the study is taking/took place. | | studySubject | MedicalEntity | A subject of the study, i.e. one of the medical conditions, therapies, devices, drugs, etc. investigated by the study. | | sponsor | Organization or Person | A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event. |

Properties from MedicalEntity

| Property | Expected Type | Description | |----------|---------------|-------------| | 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. | | study | MedicalStudy | A medical study or trial related to this entity. | | funding | Grant | A [[Grant]] that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also [[ownershipFundingInfo]]. | | recognizingAuthority | Organization | If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine. | | guideline | MedicalGuideline | A medical guideline related to this entity. | | medicineSystem | MedicineSystem | The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc. | | relevantSpecialty | MedicalSpecialty | If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant. | | legalStatus | DrugLegalStatus or MedicalEnumeration or Text | The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply. |

Properties from Thing

| Property | Expected Type | Description | |----------|---------------|-------------| | digital | Number | A number from 0.0 to 1.0 representing the degree of digital vs physical embodiment. 1.0 = fully digital, 0.0 = fully physical, 0.5 = hybrid. | | disambiguatingDescription | 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. | | potentialAction | Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. | | additionalType | Text or 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. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide. | | identifier | URL or Text or PropertyValue | 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 | ImageObject or URL | An image of the item. This can be a [[URL]] or a fully described [[ImageObject]]. | | 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, Wikidata entry, or official website. | | description | Text or TextObject | A description of the item. | | alternateName | Text | An alias for the item. | | url | URL | URL of the item. | | subjectOf | Event or CreativeWork | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. | | name | Text | The name of the item. | | mainEntityOfPage | CreativeWork or URL | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. |