Class: ResearchSubject

A research subject is the entity of interest in a research study, typically a human being or an animal, but can also be a device, group of humans or animals, or a tissue sample. Human research subjects are usually not traceable to a particular person to protect the subject’s privacy.

URI: ccdh:ResearchSubject

Parents

• is_a: Entity - Any resource that has its own identifier

Referenced by class

Attributes

Own

• ResearchSubject➞id _REQ
  • Description: The ‘logical’ identifier of the entity in the system of record, e.g. a UUID. This ‘id’ is unique within a given system. The identified entity may have a different ‘id’ in a different system.
  • range: String
• ➞associated_patient _OPT
  • Description: A reference to the Patient that is this ResearchSubject
  • range: Patient
• ➞associated_project _0..*
  • Description: A reference to the Project(s) of which this ResearchSubject is a member
  • range: Project
• ➞identifier _0..*
  • Description: A ‘business’ identifier for the entity, typically as provided by an external system or authority, that persists across implementing systems (i.e. a ‘logical’ identifier). Uses a specialized, complex ‘Identifier’ data type to capture information about the source of the business identifier.
  • range: Identifier
• ➞primary_disease_site _OPT
  • Description: The text term used to describe the primary site of disease, as categorized by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O). This categorization groups cases into general categories.
  • range: CodeableConcept
• ➞primary_disease_type _OPT
  • Description: The text term used to describe the type of malignant disease, as categorized by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O).
  • range: CodeableConcept