Wikidata:Property proposal/medical indication
medical indication
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
Motivation
[edit]For a medical intervention to be carried out on a patient, there must generally be a medical reason (exceptions and edge cases exist, e.g. for training purposes or control groups in clinical trials). These medical reasons are commonly termed indication (Q496997)
}, i.e. conditions under which a particular medical intervention is expected to have a net benefit based on the available evidence on the impact of the intervention under circumstances comparable to those of the case in question. The main benefits may be diagnostic or therapeutic in nature, as per diagnostic indication (Q110971671)
and therapeutic indication (Q86740531)
. For therapeutic ones, medical condition treated (P2175)
is a close match but I do not see a good way to express diagnostic ones (as in example 2), nor contraindication (Q1848900)
(e.g. some types of pacemakers are unsuitable for Magnetic Resonance Imaging), so I am starting this discussion to clarify the data model used in this area. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 21:50, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]Support assuming we don't already have a property that covers this, but in your motivation I'm not understanding how this would help describe counterindications?? ArthurPSmith (talk) 20:26, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
- @ArthurPSmith: I think if we go for a property
medical indication
as proposed here, we should probably start a companion property forcounterindication
. If we do not create the property proposed here, the discussion for counterindication might take another turn. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:43, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Support I would support the creation of both
medical indication
andcounterindication
. -Okkn (talk) 13:10, 16 March 2022 (UTC)Support This is often well defined, as are contraindications. Another issue can arise: use with neither indication nor contraindication. For example sometimes people with colds take unnecessary antibiotics as described in Antibiotics for the common cold and acute purulent rhinitis (Q24202307). Ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic (Q110269806) occurred when there was no indication for use, but neither was there a contraindication. Is there a way to model use which is neither indicated nor contraindicated? Bluerasberry (talk) 01:35, 5 April 2022 (UTC)