[Data-modeling] Thoughts on disease/treatment

[Faye Li]

Hi Dan,

I have a to-do item regarding anatomical structures affected by diseases 
on my whiteboard but didn't get to it this time. The type "Anatomical 
structure" exists today without any properties (see 
http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/medicine/anatomical_structure) and 
the plan was to try to flesh out the schema there. Any properties you'd 
suggest?

As for "Disease Cause" (which will be renamed etiology shortly, with the 
original name saved as an alias), I was thinking about refactoring the 
type. Each cause needs to be qualified with evidence level, something 
along the lines of "evident, probable, possible". I was also considering 
adding an enumeration property/new type for etiology category that would 
list, "bacterial, viral, chemical, parasitic", etc. I would appreciate 
your expertise if you have time to talk about this offline.

-- Faye

Dan Ruderman wrote:
>
> I like the way the medical schema is filling out.  This is really
> looking useful.
>
> A more technical term for "disease cause" would be "etiology".
> It might be useful to have a property on disease for affected
> anatomical structure(s).
>
> For disease treatment with a compound (perhaps a more specific
> co-type of disease treatment) it might be nice to have properties
> for dosage, method of administration, and duration.  Maybe these
> constitute a prescription type?
>
> Dan
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