DrugClass
A class of medical drugs, e.g., statins. Classes can represent general pharmacological class, common mechanisms of action, common physiological effects, etc.
Usage: Between 100 and 1000 domains
Property | Expected Type | Description |
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Properties from DrugClass | ||
drug
|
Drug | A drug in this drug class. |
Properties from MedicalTherapy | ||
adverseOutcome
|
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. |
contraindication
|
MedicalContraindication | A contraindication for this therapy. |
duplicateTherapy
|
MedicalTherapy | A therapy that duplicates or overlaps this one. |
indication
|
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. |
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 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
|
MedicalGuideline | A medical guideline related to this entity. |
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
|
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
|
Text | An alias for the item. |
description
|
Text | A short description of the item. |
image
|
URL or ImageObject | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
mainEntityOfPage
|
URL or CreativeWork | 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
|
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
|
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
|
Drug | The class of drug this belongs to (e.g., statins). |
Acknowledgements
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<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) ...
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<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>
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