Any medical intervention designed to prevent, treat, and cure human diseases and medical conditions, including both curative and palliative therapies. Medical therapies are typically processes of care relying upon pharmacotherapy, behavioral therapy, supportive therapy (with fluid or nutrition for example), or detoxification (e.g. hemodialysis) aimed at improving or preventing a health condition.

PropertyExpected TypeDescription Properties from MedicalTherapy contraindication MedicalContraindication  or
Text A contraindication for this therapy. duplicateTherapy MedicalTherapy A therapy that duplicates or overlaps this one. seriousAdverseOutcome 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 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 otherwise life-threatening or requiring immediate medical attention), tag it as a seriousAdverseOutcome instead. doseSchedule DoseSchedule A dosing schedule for the drug for a given population, either observed, recommended, or maximum dose based on the type used. drug Drug Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure. Properties from MedicalProcedure bodyLocation Text Location in the body of the anatomical structure. followup Text Typical or recommended followup care after the procedure is performed. howPerformed Text How the procedure is performed. preparation MedicalEntity  or
Text Typical preparation that a patient must undergo before having the procedure performed. procedureType MedicalProcedureType The type of procedure, for example Surgical, Noninvasive, or Percutaneous. status EventStatusType  or
MedicalStudyStatus  or
Text The status of the study (enumerated). 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. owner Organization  or
Person A person or organization who owns this Thing.
Inverse property: owns 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.