MedicalObservationalStudy

A Schema.org Type

Thing > MedicalEntity > MedicalStudy > MedicalObservationalStudy

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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.

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from MedicalObservationalStudy
`studyDesign`	MedicalObservationalStudyDesign	Specifics about the observational study design (enumerated).
Properties from MedicalStudy
`healthCondition`	MedicalCondition	Specifying the health condition(s) of a patient, medical study, or other target audience.
`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.
`status`	EventStatusType or MedicalStudyStatus or Text	The status of the study (enumerated).
`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.
Properties from MedicalEntity
`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.
`funding`	Grant	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. Inverse property: fundedItem
`guideline`	MedicalGuideline	A medical guideline related to this entity.
`legalStatus`	DrugLegalStatus or MedicalEnumeration or Text	The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply.
`medicineSystem`	MedicineSystem	The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc.
`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.
`study`	MedicalStudy	A medical study or trial related to this entity.
Properties from Thing
`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.
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text or TextObject	A description of the item.
`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.
`identifier`	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`	ImageObject or URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`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. Inverse property: mainEntity
`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, Wikidata entry, or official website.
`subjectOf`	CreativeWork or Event	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. Inverse property: about
`url`	URL	URL of the item.