Medicine

Medicine: Thoughts on disease/treatment

2008-06-11T04:16:26.0012Z

(Here's a reposting from a recent modeling list post from Faye Li (to Dan Ruderman about disease-disease relationships)

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

Medicine: Properties and units in the clinical laboratory sciences

2008-05-05T17:52:53.0007Z

Thanks Ed! I'll check it out.

Medicine: Properties and units in the clinical laboratory sciences

2008-05-04T00:28:39.0005Z

This document on syntax and semantic rules for the clinical laboratory sciences might be useful in this domain.

Medicine: Not for veterinary medicine or phytopathology

2008-03-20T01:59:55.0012Z

Is there any objection for designating the current Medicine domain as the domain for human medical and health data, and thus will not include medical/health data on animals and plants?

Human medicine, veterinary medicine and plant diseases are such different fields that even though some of the schemata may look similar, the data will certainly not be. Even when a disease affects both humans and animals, the associated transmission methods, symptoms, complications, and treatments are often drastically different. Instead of lumping them together, it makes more sense to use co-typing to keep the data clean and simple. Queries will be simpler and shorter too: going through instances of the Physician type looking for a cardiologist will not require the additional property constraint that you're looking for a specialist of the human heart, looking up causes for "cardiac arrest" will not yield the surprising topic of chocolate (which applies to dogs, but not humans).

The same principle is used in other types in this domain as well. For example, the Muscle type only contains muscles in the human body, the Hospital type does not include pet hospitals, and "feline panleukopenia" should not be co-typed as a "Disease or medical condition" here.

Does that sound reasonable? If so, I'll clarify the type definitions in that domain to indicate that scope, and start cleaning up the data. Any comments?

Medicine: Bodily Functions

2007-07-28T07:34:05.0000Z

This sounds like a good idea. If you get a chance to try this out in your own domain, make sure to let us know here.

Medicine: Physical exercise

2007-07-28T07:29:53.0009Z

Our type system does not currently support the type of categorization you're suggesting, but your type "Physical Exercise" is not be at all ambiguous, and sounds like a good idea. It looks like you've already been building up your schema; feel very welcome to populate your types with some example data and post back here with thoughts or questions.

Medicine: Physical exercise

2007-07-22T09:21:05.0004Z

I would like to add a "physical exercise" type which details various kinds of exercises for strength, flexibility, endurance etc. My interest is therapeutic exercise. However, there are other types of "exercise" (mental, musical etc). How easy is it for types to have multiple "parents"?

Medicine: Bodily Functions

2007-06-09T03:16:17.0005Z

We need a bodily function type to classify spasms, contractions, reproductive actions, growth, aging, reflexes, and so on and so on. Seemed like this is the place to put it. Let me know.