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Patient

A Schema.org Type
  • Canonical URL: https://schema.org/Patient
  • Equivalent Class: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/116154003
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A patient is any person recipient of health care services.
PropertyExpected TypeDescription
Properties from Patient
diagnosis MedicalCondition One or more alternative conditions considered in the differential diagnosis process as output of a diagnosis process.
drug Drug Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure.
healthCondition MedicalCondition Specifying the health condition(s) of a patient, medical study, or other target audience.
Properties from PeopleAudience
healthCondition MedicalCondition Specifying the health condition(s) of a patient, medical study, or other target audience.
requiredGender Text Audiences defined by a person's gender.
requiredMaxAge Integer Audiences defined by a person's maximum age.
requiredMinAge Integer Audiences defined by a person's minimum age.
suggestedAge QuantitativeValue The age or age range for the intended audience or person, for example 3-12 months for infants, 1-5 years for toddlers.
suggestedGender GenderType  or
Text
The suggested gender of the intended person or audience, for example "male", "female", or "unisex".
suggestedMaxAge Number Maximum recommended age in years for the audience or user.
suggestedMeasurement QuantitativeValue A suggested range of body measurements for the intended audience or person, for example inseam between 32 and 34 inches or height between 170 and 190 cm. Typically found on a size chart for wearable products.
suggestedMinAge Number Minimum recommended age in years for the audience or user.
Properties from Audience
audienceType Text The target group associated with a given audience (e.g. veterans, car owners, musicians, etc.).
geographicArea AdministrativeArea The geographic area associated with the audience.
Properties from Person
additionalName Text An additional name for a Person, can be used for a middle name.
address PostalAddress  or
Text
Physical address of the item.
affiliation Organization An organization that this person is affiliated with. For example, a school/university, a club, or a team.
agentInteractionStatistic InteractionCounter The number of completed interactions for this entity, in a particular role (the 'agent'), in a particular action (indicated in the statistic), and in a particular context (i.e. interactionService).
alumniOf EducationalOrganization  or
Organization
An organization that the person is an alumni of.
Inverse property: alumni
award Text An award won by or for this item. Supersedes awards.
birthDate Date Date of birth.
birthPlace Place The place where the person was born.
brand Brand  or
Organization
The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
callSign Text A callsign, as used in broadcasting and radio communications to identify people, radio and TV stations, or vehicles.
children Person A child of the person.
colleague Person  or
URL
A colleague of the person. Supersedes colleagues.
contactPoint ContactPoint A contact point for a person or organization. Supersedes contactPoints.
deathDate Date Date of death.
deathPlace Place The place where the person died.
duns Text The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person.
email Text Email address.
familyName Text Family name. In the U.S., the last name of a Person.
faxNumber Text The fax number.
follows Person The most generic uni-directional social relation.
funder Organization  or
Person
A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
funding Grant A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
Inverse property: fundedItem
gender GenderType  or
Text
Gender of something, typically a Person, but possibly also fictional characters, animals, etc. While https://schema.org/Male and https://schema.org/Female may be used, text strings are also acceptable for people who do not identify as a binary gender. The gender property can also be used in an extended sense to cover e.g. the gender of sports teams. As with the gender of individuals, we do not try to enumerate all possibilities. A mixed-gender SportsTeam can be indicated with a text value of "Mixed".
givenName Text Given name. In the U.S., the first name of a Person.
globalLocationNumber Text The Global Location Number (GLN, sometimes also referred to as International Location Number or ILN) of the respective organization, person, or place. The GLN is a 13-digit number used to identify parties and physical locations.
hasCertification Certification Certification information about a product, organization, service, place, or person.
hasCredential EducationalOccupationalCredential A credential awarded to the Person or Organization.
hasOccupation Occupation The Person's occupation. For past professions, use Role for expressing dates.
hasOfferCatalog OfferCatalog Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service.
hasPOS Place Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person.
height Distance  or
QuantitativeValue
The height of the item.
homeLocation ContactPoint  or
Place
A contact location for a person's residence.
honorificPrefix Text An honorific prefix preceding a Person's name such as Dr/Mrs/Mr.
honorificSuffix Text An honorific suffix following a Person's name such as M.D./PhD/MSCSW.
interactionStatistic InteractionCounter The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used. Supersedes interactionCount.
isicV4 Text The International Standard of Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 code for a particular organization, business person, or place.
jobTitle DefinedTerm  or
Text
The job title of the person (for example, Financial Manager).
knows Person The most generic bi-directional social/work relation.
knowsAbout Text  or
Thing  or
URL
Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a topic that is known about - suggesting possible expertise but not implying it. We do not distinguish skill levels here, or relate this to educational content, events, objectives or JobPosting descriptions.
knowsLanguage Language  or
Text
Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a known language. We do not distinguish skill levels or reading/writing/speaking/signing here. Use language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard.
makesOffer Offer A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person.
Inverse property: offeredBy
memberOf Organization  or
ProgramMembership
An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
Inverse property: member
naics Text The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for a particular organization or business person.
nationality Country Nationality of the person.
netWorth MonetaryAmount  or
PriceSpecification
The total financial value of the person as calculated by subtracting assets from liabilities.
owns OwnershipInfo  or
Product
Products owned by the organization or person.
parent Person A parent of this person. Supersedes parents.
performerIn Event Event that this person is a performer or participant in.
publishingPrinciples CreativeWork  or
URL
The publishingPrinciples property indicates (typically via URL) a document describing the editorial principles of an Organization (or individual, e.g. a Person writing a blog) that relate to their activities as a publisher, e.g. ethics or diversity policies. When applied to a CreativeWork (e.g. NewsArticle) the principles are those of the party primarily responsible for the creation of the CreativeWork.

While such policies are most typically expressed in natural language, sometimes related information (e.g. indicating a funder) can be expressed using schema.org terminology.
relatedTo Person The most generic familial relation.
seeks Demand A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
sibling Person A sibling of the person. Supersedes siblings.
sponsor Organization  or
Person
A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event.
spouse Person The person's spouse.
taxID Text The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain.
telephone Text The telephone number.
vatID Text The Value-added Tax ID of the organization or person.
weight QuantitativeValue The weight of the product or person.
workLocation ContactPoint  or
Place
A contact location for a person's place of work.
worksFor Organization Organizations that the person works for.
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.
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.