- From: Aaron Brown <abbrown@google.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:33:31 -0400
- To: Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-vocabs@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CALnE6u_Z1mBnuD_HHQ55FHnGSfTM37gGJe=TWrvYerzU+9RE+w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Thad and all, A couple of updates. First we've rewritten the descriptions for MedicalStudy<http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/MedicalStudy>, MedicalTrial <http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/MedicalTrial>, and MedicalObservationalStudy<http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/MedicalObservationalStudy>on the site to increase clarity here. Let me know if you have further suggestions on this. We've also clarified the description of adverseOutcome and severeAdverseOutcome in MedicalTherapy<http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/MedicalTherapy>per other comments on this thread, and updated the formatting of the markup examples to be a bit clearer regarding nested <span>s. Thanks for the input so far! --Aaron On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Aaron Brown <abbrown@google.com> wrote: > The example you cite below would best modeled as a MedicalTrial. > Basically, a MedicalTrial is a controlled clinical trial in the traditional > sense (people recruited to study a particular intervention, divided into > treatment and control groups), whereas MedicalStudy is a more general > umbrella type that covers these and other kinds of studies, including > uncontrolled observational studies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observational_study> (MedicalObservationalStudy) > like the Nurses' Health Study where a group of people are observed over a > period of time. > > Does that help clarify? I'll look at making the documentation crisper here. > > --Aaron > > > > On Mon May 14 20:01:21 GMT-400 2012, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Which type to use for an instance such as: >> http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00587600?spons=%22Mayo+Clinic%22&spons_ex=Y&rank=7 >> >> >> Mayo Clinic has 938 trials listed there currently, which I think could >> also be typed as a MedicalStudy<http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/MedicalStudy> >> . >> >> A bit confusing if each of those 938 listed would be either a >> MedicalStudy <http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/MedicalStudy> or a >> MedicalTrial <http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/MedicalTrial>. >> >> Does the mere fact that a Thing HAS A clinicaltrials.gov Identifer make >> it one over the other ? It seems given your MedicalStudy description that >> those instances would be a MedicalStudy. Example from above : NCT00587600 >> >> Perhaps just more documentation is needed for Medical Trial <http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/MedicalTrial>itself to >> make the differences more apparent ? >> >> -- >> -Thad >> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry >> > -- Aaron Brown | Senior Product Manager | Google, Inc. | New York, NY
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