Schema.org Vocabulary › Class: MedicalObservationalStudy
https://schema.org/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.
Subclass of: MedicalStudy
| Property | Description | Range |
|---|---|---|
| studyDesign | Specifics about the observational study design (enumerated). | MedicalObservationalStudyDesign |
| Property | Description | Range |
|---|---|---|
| sponsor | 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. | Organization, Person |
| status | The status of the study (enumerated). | EventStatusType, MedicalStudyStatus, Text |
| studySubject | A subject of the study, i.e. one of the medical conditions, therapies, devices, drugs, etc. investigated by the study. | MedicalEntity |
| studyLocation | The location in which the study is taking/took place. | AdministrativeArea |
| healthCondition | Specifying the health condition(s) of a patient, medical study, or other target audience. | MedicalCondition |
| Property | Description | Range |
|---|---|---|
| medicineSystem | The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc. | MedicineSystem |
| relevantSpecialty | If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant. | MedicalSpecialty |
| funding | A [[Grant]] that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also [[ownershipFundingInfo]]. | Grant |
| recognizingAuthority | If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine. | Organization |
| legalStatus | The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply. | DrugLegalStatus, MedicalEnumeration, Text |
| study | A medical study or trial related to this entity. | MedicalStudy |
| code | A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc. | MedicalCode |
| guideline | A medical guideline related to this entity. | MedicalGuideline |
| Property | Description | Range |
|---|---|---|
| potentialAction | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. | Action |
| image | An image of the item. This can be a [[URL]] or a fully described [[ImageObject]]. | URL, ImageObject |
| sameAs | 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. | URL |
| owner | A person or organization who owns this Thing. | Organization, Person |
| description | A description of the item. | TextObject, Text |
| subjectOf | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. | Event, CreativeWork |
| url | URL of the item. | URL |
| additionalType | 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. | Text, URL |
| disambiguatingDescription | 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. | Text |
| alternateName | An alias for the item. | Text |
| name | The name of the item. | Text |
| identifier | 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](/docs/datamodel.html#identifierBg) for more details. | Text, URL, PropertyValue |
| mainEntityOfPage | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See [background notes](/docs/datamodel.html#mainEntityBackground) for details. | CreativeWork, URL |