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medicine

vr.tr.medicine · INF.KNW

Let an agent treat medicine as a regulated discipline and practice, give only general information, and always direct individual health decisions to qualified professionals.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent treat medicine as a regulated discipline and practice, give only general information, and always direct individual health decisions to qualified professionals.

The science and practice of diagnosing, treating and preventing disease and injury and promoting health, carried out by regulated professionals.

What it is for: Keeping people healthy, curing and managing illness, and relieving suffering.

It can be practise it, only with qualification and licence; research it, under clinical trial rules; regulate it, through licensing and medicines agencies; provide general health information, which is different from medical advice.

Distinguishing features

A regulated profession: practice requires a licence

Evidence-based, with guidelines graded by evidence

Specialties organised by organ, age, method or setting

Duties of confidentiality and consent

What it looks like

Hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, laboratories and practitioners; the discipline itself has no appearance.

How it is recognised

Licensed practitioners and accredited facilities

Clinical guidelines and evidence-based sources

Veterinary medicine is a parallel field for animals

Related models

treats - diseases are separate entries

disease

is practised by - regulated occupations

physician and other clinicians

uses - medicinal products are separate entries

medicine as drug

is confused with - a homonym

medicine as a drug

In practice

Families and kinds

specialties: internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics, psychiatry and others

primary, secondary and tertiary care

preventive medicine and public health

veterinary medicine

complementary practices, which differ in evidence and regulation

Identifiers

medical licence number jurisdiction-specific identifies a licensed practitioner

Standards and regulation

Medical practice acts and professional regulators

Medicines and medical device regulation

Declaration of Helsinki and clinical trial regulations

Patient rights and confidentiality law

Failure modes and hazards

General information mistaken for individual advice

Out-of-date or low-quality sources

Breaches of confidentiality

Unlicensed practice

Also called

schizophrenic patientpsychiatric nursingveterinary cliniccouples therapymarital therapyinterpersonal psychotherapypreventive nutritionsleep disorder specialistdental toollaser medicinetattoo laserFraxeldevotional pictures for swallowingTraditional Chinese medicines derived from the human bodyChinese patent medicineNeoterica ProtectoDental antibiotic prophylaxissafe listeningInternational Noise Awareness Dayout-of-hours medical servicemedical astrologymental health teletherapytelepsychiatryTactical Combat Casualty Careelectronic consultationtraditional Balkan medicinenigerian traditional medicineCameroonian Traditional Medicinetraditional Asian medicinejamutraditional medicineiatromathematicsschool dentistryvideo consultationvideo medical consultationtext-based medical consultationaudio medical consultationonline counselingpain medicinetraditional Japanese medicine

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.medicine-act

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Practice Who practises and how.

Medicine is practised by licensed people in accredited settings.

Practitioners

Licensing.

Licensing

Who may practise.

  1. Who may practise this kind of medicine here, and how is a licence checked? provenance
  2. Which regulator handles complaints? provenance

Settings

Care levels.

Care setting

Where care is provided.

  1. At which level of care is this handled? definition
  2. How does a patient access it? action
Evidence What is known.

Recommendations rest on graded evidence.

Guidelines

Clinical guidelines.

Guideline source

The guideline and its date.

  1. Which clinical guideline covers this, from which body and date? provenance
  2. How strong is the evidence behind it? measurement

Research

Trials and studies.

Research status

The state of research.

  1. What do trials show, and how large and recent are they? measurement
  2. Is the question still open? boundary
Patient rights Consent and confidentiality.

Rights protect patients in every encounter.

Consent

Informed consent.

Consent

Consent requirements.

  1. What must a patient be told before consenting? definition
  2. Who can consent for someone without capacity? boundary

Confidentiality

Health data.

Confidentiality

Rules on health data.

  1. Who may see this health information? boundary
  2. When may confidentiality be broken? boundary
Agent limits What an agent may do.

An agent can inform but must not diagnose or prescribe.

General information

What can be said.

Information scope

The scope of safe information.

  1. Is this a general question or a request for individual advice? boundary
  2. Which reliable source should be cited? provenance

Referral

When to send to a professional.

Referral rule

When and where to refer.

  1. Which symptoms need urgent care now? action
  2. Where should the person go for help? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should specialties be separate entries?
  • How should agents mark the boundary between information and advice?
  • How should evidence grades be represented?
Draft as JSON