DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY : DATABASE SEARCHING TECHNIQUES: VOCABULARY : REFERENCE: TOOLS: THESAURUSES : DATABASE: THESAURUSES: U.S. National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MESH)
David P. Dillard
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DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY :
DATABASE SEARCHING TECHNIQUES: VOCABULARY :
REFERENCE: TOOLS: THESAURUSES :
DATABASE: THESAURUSES:
U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Medical Subject Headings (MESH)
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U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Medical Subject Headings (MESH)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings
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"Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary
for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life
sciences; it can also serve as a thesaurus that facilitates searching.
Created and updated by the United States National Library of Medicine
(NLM), it is used by the MEDLINE/PubMed article database and by NLM's
catalog of book holdings.
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MeSH can be browsed and downloaded free of charge on the Internet through
PubMed. The yearly printed version was discontinued in 2007 and MeSH is
now available online only.[1] Originally in English, MeSH has been
translated into numerous other languages and allows retrieval of documents
from different languages."
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Contents
1 Structure of MeSH
1.1 Descriptor hierarchy
1.2 Descriptions
1.3 Qualifiers
1.4 Supplements
2 Use in Medline/PubMed
3 Categories
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
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Structure of MeSH
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The 2009 version of MeSH contains a total of 25,186
subject headings, also known as descriptors.[2] Most of these are
accompanied by a short description or definition, links to related
descriptors, and a list of synonyms or very similar terms (known as entry
terms). Because of these synonym lists, MeSH can also be viewed as a
thesaurus.[3]
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Descriptor hierarchy
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The descriptors or subject headings are arranged in a hierarchy. A given
descriptor may appear at several places in the hierarchical tree. The tree
locations carry systematic labels known as tree numbers, and consequently
one descriptor can carry several tree numbers. For example, the descriptor
"Digestive System Neoplasms" has the tree numbers C06.301 and C04.588.274;
C stands for Diseases, C06 for Digestive System Diseases and C06.301 for
Digestive System Neoplasms; C04 for Neoplasms, C04.588 for Neoplasms By
Site, and C04.588.274 also for Digestive System Neoplasms. The tree
numbers of a given descriptor are subject to change as MeSH is updated.
Every descriptor also carries a unique alphanumerical ID that will not
change.
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CategoriesThe top-level categories in the MeSH descriptor hierarchy are:
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Anatomy [A]
Organisms [B]
Diseases [C]
Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Biological Sciences [G]
Physical Sciences [H]
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Technology and Food and Beverages [J]
Humanities [K]
Information Science [L]
Persons [M]
Health Care [N]
Publication Characteristics [V]
Geographic Locations [Z]
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For the full hierarchy,
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see List of MeSH codes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MeSH_codes
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Medical Subject Headings - Files Available to Download
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/filelist.html
Download of any of the full data files requires the completion of an
online Memorandum of Understanding
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2011/download/termscon.html
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2011 MeSH
These formatted versions of the entire MeSH vocabulary are available to
download. For best results in downloading, use of a graphical interface is
recommended.
2011 MeSH in XML format.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/termscon.html
MeSH descriptors and qualifiers, and Supplementary Concept Records
(formerly Supplementary Chemical Records) in XML format. Files are updated
weekly. Supplementary records are compatible with 2011 MeSH descriptors.
Descriptor file is 260MB in size, uncompressed. Compressed file is 14MB.
Sample XML
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2011/download/xml2011sample.txt
XML Data Elements
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/xml_data_elements.html
DTD files
Descriptor DTD
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2011/download/desc2011.dtd
Qualifier DTD
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2011/download/qual2011.dtd
SCR DTD
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2011/download/supp2011.dtd
About XML MeSH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/xml_abt.html
Conversion Table
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/xmlconvert.html
Conversion from ASCII MeSH format to XML
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/xmlconvert_ascii.html
Introduction to XML MeSH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/xmlmesh.html
2011 MeSH in ASCII format.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/termscon.html
MeSH descriptors and qualifiers, and Supplementary Concept Records
(formerly Supplementary Chemical Records), in ASCII format. Files are
updated weekly. The descriptor file is 25MB in size and may take more than
30 minutes to download using a connection 2400 bps or slower. Postings
data in descriptor and qualifier records reflect updates in citation files
through the October, 2000 entry month. Note that subfield separator for
descriptor entry terms has been changed from a colon to a bar (|) in order
to make it easier to parse terms containing colons.
Sample Text
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2011/download/asc_smpd.txt
About ASCII MeSH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/asc_abt.html
2011 MeSH Trees. MeSH main headings with the tree numbers that place the
heading in a hierarchical arrangement. Sorted by tree number. ASCII
format. [1.8MB]
Sample Text
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2011/download/asc_smpd.txt
About MeSH Trees
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/asc_abt.html
2011 MeSH in MARC format.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/marc.html
MeSH vocabulary data in the USMARC authority format.
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These files are also available for 2011 MeSH:
Pharmacologic Actions - 2011.
Substances with a given Pharmacologic Action - 2011
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/termscon.html
Sample XML, DTD
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2011/download/pa2011sample.txt
About Pharmacologic Action files
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/pa_abt.html
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New Headings with Scope Notes - 2011.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/termscon.html
Main headings that are new for 2011 with scope notes (definitions),
cross-references, and other information.
MeSH Replaced Headings - 2011.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/termscon.html
Main headings that have changed form for 2011 or have been deleted. 2011
Descriptors - preferred term only MeSH MN (tree number) Changes - 2011.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/termscon.html
Main headings in which there has been a change in the MN
(MeSH tree Number) for 2011.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/termscon.html
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2010 MeSH in XML format.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/termscon.html
MeSH descriptors and qualifiers, and Supplementary Concept Records
(formerly Supplementary Chemical Records) in XML format. Files are updated
weekly. Supplementary records are compatible with 2010 MeSH descriptors.
Descriptor file is 260MB in size, uncompressed. Compressed file is 14MB.
Sample XML
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/xml2010sample.txt
XML Data Elements
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/xml_data_elements.html
DTD files
Descriptor DTD
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/desc2010.dtd
Qualifier DTD
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/qual2010.dtd
SCR DTD
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/supp2010.dtd
About XML MeSH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/xml_abt.html
Conversion Table
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/xmlconvert.html
Conversion from ASCII MeSH format to XML
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/xmlconvert_ascii.html
Introduction to XML MeSH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/xmlmesh.html
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2010 MeSH in ASCII format.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/termscon.html
MeSH descriptors and qualifiers, and Supplementary Concept Records
(formerly Supplementary Chemical Records), in ASCII format. Files are
updated weekly. The descriptor file is 25MB in size and may take more than
30 minutes to download using a connection 2400 bps or slower. Postings
data in descriptor and qualifier records reflect updates in citation files
through the October, 2000 entry month. Note that subfield separator for
descriptor entry terms has been changed from a colon to a bar (|) in order
to make it easier to parse terms containing colons.
Sample Text
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/asc_smpd.txt
About ASCII MeSH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/asc_abt.html
2010 MeSH Trees.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/termscon.html
MeSH main headings with the tree numbers that place the
heading in a hierarchical arrangement. Sorted by tree number. ASCII
format. [1.8MB]
Sample Text
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/asc_smpd.txt
About MeSH Trees
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/mtr_abt.html
2010 MeSH in MARC format.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2010/download/marc.html
MeSH vocabulary data in the USMARC authority format.
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2009 MeSH
2009 MeSH in MARC format.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2009/download/marc.html
MeSH vocabulary data in the USMARC authority
format.
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2004 MeSH
2004 MeSH files for TREC (Text REtrieval Conference)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/termscon.html
Genomics track. For
use by the TREC community with the 2004 MEDLINE/PubMed Baseline.
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MeSH ELHILL Format Document (PDF format): This is a description of the
MeSH data elements in the ELHILL Unit Record Format (EURF), NLM's former
format for distributing MeSH on tape. Most elements are common to both the
ASCII and EURF MeSH formats and so the description of MeSH data in the EUR
format may be of interest to those downloading the ASCII MeSH files from
the Web.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/elmesh99.pdf
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For questions concerning distribution, format, etc., contact:
Jacque-Lynne Schulman
Medical Subject Headings
Telephone: 301-496-1495; FAX: 301-402-2002
email: schu...@nlm.nih.gov
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Special Communication
JAMA. 1994;271(14):1103-1108. doi: 10.1001/jama.1994.03510380059038
Understanding and Using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Vocabulary to
Perform Literature SearchesHenry J. Lowe, MD; G. Octo Barnett, MD
From the Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr Lowe is now with the Section of Medical
Informatics, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (Pa) School
of Medicine.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/271/14/1103.abstract
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Medical terminologies: MeSH
Open Clinical
http://www.openclinical.org/medTermMesh.html
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
University of Ulster
http://library.ulster.ac.uk/sci/MeSH.htm
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An Introduction to MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings)
Creighton University
Health Sciences Library
http://newadonis.creighton.edu/hsl/searching/MeSH-Intro.html
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Topic Models to Interpret MeSH MEDLINEs
Medical Subject Headings
David Newman12, Sarvnaz Karimi1, and Lawrence Cavedon1
1 NICTA and The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 University of California, Irvine, USA
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~newman/pubs/Newman-AI09.pdf
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MeSH Browser (2011 MeSH):
The files are updated every week on Sunday.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html
Searching a term in this database of subject headings:
Diabetes
Search Results
National Library of Medicine - Medical Subject Headings
2011 MeSH
Please select a term from list:
Diabetes Complications
Complications of Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes-Related Complications
Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus, Nephrogenic
Acquired Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus
Congenital Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus, Nephrogenic, Type I
Diabetes Insipidus, Nephrogenic, Type II
Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus
Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus, Type I
Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus, Type II
Diabetes Insipidus, Neurogenic
Diabetes Insipidus, Central
Diabetes Insipidus, Neurohypophyseal
Diabetes Insipidus, Pituitary
Neurogenic Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
Alloxan Diabetes
Experimental Diabetes Mellitus
Streptozocin Diabetes
Streptozotocin Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus, Lipoatrophic
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Autoimmune Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus, Brittle
Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent
Diabetes Mellitus, Juvenile-Onset
Diabetes Mellitus, Ketosis-Prone
Diabetes Mellitus, Sudden-Onset
Diabetes Mellitus, Type I
Diabetes, Autoimmune
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Diabetes Mellitus, Adult-Onset
Diabetes Mellitus, Ketosis-Resistant
Diabetes Mellitus, Maturity-Onset
Diabetes Mellitus, Non Insulin Dependent
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
Diabetes Mellitus, Noninsulin Dependent
Diabetes Mellitus, Slow-Onset
Diabetes Mellitus, Stable
Diabetes Mellitus, Type II
Maturity-Onset Diabetes Mellitus
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes, Gestational
Diabetes Mellitus, Gestational
Diabetes, Pregnancy-Induced
Gestational Diabetes
Hemochromatosis
Diabetes, Bronze
Hypophosphatemia, Familial
Diabetes, Phosphate
Phosphate Diabetes
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S.)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Pregnancy in Diabetics
Pregnancy in Diabetes
Wolfram Syndrome
Diabetes Insipidus and Mellitus with Optic Atrophy and Deafness
Achard-Thiers syndrome
Bearded female with diabetes
Diabetes in bearded women
ANKRD23 protein, human
diabetes-related ankyrin repeat protein, human
AREDYLD Syndrome
Acral renal ectodermal dysplasia lipoatrophic diabetes
Acrorenal field defect, ectodermal dysplasia, and lipoatrophic
diabetes
AVP protein, human
arginine vasopressin (neurophysin II, antidiuretic hormone, diabetes
insipidus, neurohypophyseal) protein, human
Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy type 2
Congenital lipoatrophic diabetes
DAPD peptide
dual-acting peptide for diabetes (DAPD)
DARP protein, mouse
diabetes-related ankyrin repeat protein, mouse
Diabetes insipidus primary central
Diabetes insipidus cranial type
Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic, X-linked
Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic, type 1
Diabetes mellitus, Addison's disease, myxedema
Dipsogenic Diabetes Insipidus
Fanconi Bickel syndrome
Pseudo-phlorizin diabetes
Gestational Diabetes Insipidus
HNF1A protein, human
maturity onset diabetes of the young 3 protein, human
Lipoatrophic diabetes
Lipoatrophy with diabetes, hepatic steatosis, cardiomyopathy, and
leukomelanodermic papules
Noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus with deafness
Diabetes and deafness, maternally inherited
Diabetes mellitus, type 2, with deafness
Diabetes-deafness syndrome, maternally transmitted
Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness
Pancreatic beta cell agenesis with neonatal diabetes mellitus
Congenital absence of insulin-producing beta cells with diabetes
mellitus
PEA15 protein, human
phosphoprotein enriched in diabetes, 15kDa, human
Renal cysts and diabetes syndrome
Maturity-onset diabetes of the young, type 5
RRAD protein, human
Ras-related associated with diabetes protein, human
Rrad protein, mouse
Ras-related associated with diabetes protein, mouse
Rrad protein, rat
Ras associated with diabetes protein, rat
Ras-related associated with diabetes protein, rat
Usmg5 protein, rat
diabetes-associated protein in insulin-sensitive tissues, rat
Wolcott-Rallison syndrome
Epiphyseal dysplasia, multiple, with early-onset diabetes mellitus
Yorifuji Okuno syndrome
Pancreatic hypoplasia diabetes heart disease
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Medical Subject Headings [Home Page]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
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MeSH Browser Online searching of MeSH vocabulary
About the MeSH Browser
Suggestions for authors' keywords
All About MeSH MeSH Fact Sheet
Publications and presentations by MeSH staff
Introduction to MeSH
Information from Previous Years
Obtaining MeSH Download electronic copies.
Lists of Annual Changes to MeSH.
Citation Maintenance
About Updates.
Download XML Files.
MeSH vocabulary suggestions.
What's New
2011 MeSH Files Available
Related Efforts
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
NLM Classification
RxNorm
DailyMed
MeSH Staff
Biographies and email
Publications and presentations
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PubMed Online Training
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
Understanding the Vocabulary
Building the Search
Managing the Results
Saving the Search
Getting the Articles
Searching PubMed Search PubMed by Author (2 min., June 2010)
Searching PubMed by Author and Subject (1 min., September 2009)
PubMed Simple Subject Search (1 min., January 2010)
Search for a Journal (2 min., March 2011) - See also Searching for
Journals in the NLM Catalog
Retrieving Citations from a Journal Issue (1 min., February 2010)
PubMed's MeSH Database Searching with the MeSH Database (3 min., February
2011)
Combining MeSH Terms Using the MeSH Database (3 min., February 2011)
Applying Subheadings and Other Features of the MeSH Database (3 min.,
February 2011)
Managing Results Downloading Results for Use in Reference Management
Software (2 min., November 2009)
Changing Your Default Display Settings (2 min., July 2010)
Links to Full Text (My NCBI) Your library may use LinkOut Filters or
Outside Tool to link from PubMed to full text articles. Ask your
librarian.
Links to Full Text from Your Library (Library LinkOut Filters) (3 min.,
revised December 2009)
Selecting Your Outside Tool Preference (3 min., July 2010)
Saving Searches (My NCBI)
Saving Searches (4 min., revised October 2009)
Changing Saved Searches (2 min., revised December 2009)
E-mail Alerts for Articles from Your Favorite Journals (3 min., revised
December 2010)
Collections and Bibliographies (My NCBI)
Collections (3 min., revised October 2009)
Editing Collections (3 min., revised December 2009)
Sharing Collections (2 min., revised December 2009)
Creating Your Bibliography (4 min., revised February 2010)
Preferences and Filters (My NCBI) Retrieving Your My NCBI Username or
Password (2 min., August 2010)
Changing Your Default Display Settings (2 min., July 2010)
Filters (3 min., revised May 2010)
Links to Full Text from Your Library (Library LinkOut Filters) (3 min.,
revised December 2009)
Custom Filters (2 min., May 2010)
Selecting Your Outside Tool Preference (3 min., July 2010)
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Webcasts
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Search Clinic: Building a PubMed Search (April 2010)
Webcast: 2009 PubMed Redesign (October 2009)
Search Clinic: PubMed Update on Automatic Term Mapping, Citation Sensor,
and Advanced Search (July 2008)
Search Clinic: Chemicals & Drugs in PubMed (August 2007)
The Basics of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in MEDLINE/PubMed
(Instructional Web site)
Branching Out: The MeSH Vocabulary (Instructional Video)
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For additional instruction on using PubMed, see the following resources:
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PubMed Basics (tri-fold handout in PDF, February 2011)
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf
Searching PubMed with MeSH (tri-fold handout in PDF, February 2011)
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/meshtri.pdf
My NCBI (tri-fold handout in PDF, March 2010)
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/myncbitri.pdf
Full Text and PubMed (tri-fold handout in PDF format, February 2011)
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/fulltexttri.pdf
Loansome Doc (tri-fold handout in PDF format, February 2010)
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/ldtrifold.pdf
U.S. National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Non-English Guides
to PubMed
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/intlpubmedlinks.html
These handouts are a U.S. National Network of Libraries of Medicine(NN/LM)
resource.
http://nnlm.gov/
PubMed Training Manual available on the Training Manuals and Resources
page.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/web_based.html
PubMed Help
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helppubmed.chapter.pubmedhelp
For additional instruction for libraries on using LinkOut, see LinkOut for
Libraries Training and Educational Resources.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/linkout_for_libraries/loforlib.html
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Indexing Tips
Health Links
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/medindexing.html
Textwords -- It is assumed you will use textwords in some cases to define
a subject, e.g. tobacco smoke pollution (MeSH term) and passive (textword)
to retrieve passive smoking.
Check Tags -- Large-volume concepts are routinely "checked" for in each
article by indexers. Check tags pinpoint specific age groups, males or
females, humans or animals, publication types, etc.
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in PubMed
http://library.mssm.edu/reference/pdfs/mesh.pdf
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) versus Text Words
http://library.med.utah.edu/ed/eduservices/
handouts/PubMed_Web/mesh_adv.pdf
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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Medical Subject Headings
Tutorials
Yale University Library
http://cwml-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/01/medical-subject-headings.html
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Title Pubmed Essentials
Author Bengt Edhlund
Edition 2
Publisher Lulu.com, 2006
ISBN 1411688406, 9781411688407
Length 160 pages
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Understanding and using the medical subject headings (MeSH)
vocabulary to perform literature searches
Lowe, HJ
Journal: JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
ISSN: 0098-7484 Date: 1994
Volume: 271 Issue: 14 Page: 1103
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Medical subject headings (MeSH)
Lipscomb, CE
Journal: Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
ISSN: 0025-7338 Date: 2000
Volume: 88 Issue: 3 Page: 265
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Relationships in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Stuart J. Nelson, W. Douglas Johnston, and Betsy L. Humphreys
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshrels.html
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Medical subject headings used to search the biomedical literature
Coletti, MH
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
ISSN: 1067-5027 Date: 2001
Volume: 8 Issue: 4 Page: 317
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Comparison of Medical Subject Headings and text-word searches in
MEDLINE to retrieve studies on sleep in healthy individuals
Jenuwine, ES
Journal: Journal of the Medical Library Association
ISSN: 1536-5050 Date: 2004
Volume: 92 Issue: 3 Page: 349
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Ranking indirect connections in literature-based discovery: The
role of medical subject headings
Swanson, DR
Journal: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology
ISSN: 1532-2882 Date: 2006
Volume: 57 Issue: 11 Page: 1427
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Conceptual mapping of user's queries to medical subject headings.
Zieman, YL
Journal: Proceedings - AMIA Annual Fall Symposium
ISSN: 1091-8280 Date: 1997
Page: 519
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Variations in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) mapping: from the
natural language of patron terms to the controlled vocabulary of mapped
lists
Gault, LV
Journal: Journal of the Medical Library Association
ISSN: 1536-5050 Date: 2002
Volume: 90 Issue: 2 Page: 173
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Searching the Literature Using Medical Subject Headings versus
Text Word with PubMed
Chang, Angela A.
Journal: The Laryngoscope
ISSN: 0023-852X Date: 2006
Volume: 116 Issue: 2 Page: 336
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Google Videos
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22medical%20SUBJECT%
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Google Images
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Google News Archive
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SUBJECT+HEADINGS%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Search+Archives
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Google Blogs
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Content Sample:
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Nursing Subject Guide
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Need to Know- The University of Iowa Libraries
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blogLigerCat: A New Way to Search PubMed The Pollak Library Blog2 days
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ReferencesMedical Subject Headings: What's old is new again!Feb 17, 2011
by dmluvm
In November 2010 the National Library of Medicine (NLM) celebrated the
50th anniversary of the first edition of Medical Subject Headings,
commonly known as MeSH. The 1960 edition contained 4300 descriptors in an
alphabetic arrangement. ...
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Subject HeadingsNov 17, 2010 by jon
The National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus Medical
Subject Headings (MeSH) turns 50 this year. Most of us know about MeSH
from using PubMed. Learn more about MeSH and see a digital copy of the 1st
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Tagging vs. Cataloging: What It's All About - Adaptive PathNov 30, 2006 by
chi...@adaptivepath.com
Librarians have traditionally lived in a controlled world filled with the
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Medical Subject Headings - Home Page
The Medical Subject Headings comprise the National Library of Medicine's
controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles, for cataloging books and
other ...
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
by CE Lipscomb - 2000 - Cited by 62 - Related articles
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the initial publication of
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) [2]. MeSH was a new and thoroughly revised
version of ...
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MeSH Browser
Aug 28, 2010 ... NLM Home Page Medical Subject Headings Home Page
Contact NLM Site Index Search Our Web Site NLM Home Page ...
www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html
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Variations in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) mapping: from the ...
by LV Gault - 2002 - Cited by 23 - Related articles
Objectives: This study compared the mapping of natural language patron
terms to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) across six MeSH interfaces
for the ...
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Medical Subject Headings (MESH) Fact Sheet
The Medical Subject Headings Section staff continually revise and update
the MeSH vocabulary. Staff subject specialists are responsible for areas
of the ...
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Medical subject headings used to search the biomedical literature.
by MH Coletti - Cited by 59 - Related articles
MEDLINE is unique in that each reference to the medical literature is
indexed under a controlled vocabulary called Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH). ...
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Medical Subject Headings - Files Available to Download - 2011
Sep 17, 2010 ... For questions concerning distribution, format, etc.,
contact: Jacque-Lynne Schulman: Medical Subject Headings: Telephone:
301-496-1495; ...
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MeSH home
MeSH. MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary
thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed. ...
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The Basics of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in MEDLINE/PubMed
Learn more about Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and how to use them to
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Medical Subject Headings Used to Search the Biomedical Literature
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1. Medical Subject Headings - Home Page [21K]
Jan 2011
...Medicine National Institutes of Health Contact NLM Search Site
Navigation The World's Largest Medical Library Medical Subject Headings
MeSH Home | About MeSH | MeSH Browser | MeSH Files | Staff | Suggestions
Home > Library Catalogs and Services...
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/]
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2. Suggestion for Medical Subject Headings Change [10K]
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...Navigation The World's Largest Medical Library Medical Subject Headings
MeSH Home | About MeSH | MeSH Browser | MeSH...Library Catalogs and
Services > MeSH Suggestion for Medical Subject Headings Change --
Suggested change: (One- or two-sentence...
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshsugg.html]
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3. Use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in Portuguese for
categorizing web-based healthcare content
Mancini, Felipe / Sousa, Fernando Sequeira / Teixeira, Fio Oliveira /
Falc, Alex Esteves Jacoud / Hummel, Anderson Diniz / da Costa, Thiago
Martini / Calado, Pel Pereira / (...) / Pisa, Ivan Torres, Journal of
Biomedical Informatics, 44 (2), p.299, Apr 2011
doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2010.12.002
...techniques combined with a dictionary that is specific to one field of
knowledge [23] . For this study, we used the Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH) ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh ) as the basis for automated
classification of web...
Published journal article available from ScienceDirect
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4. Use Of Medical Subject Headings For Cataloging - 2005 [24K]
May 2010
...Contact NLM | Site Map | FAQs Medical Subject Headings MeSH Home |
About MeSH...and Services > MeSH Use Of Medical Subject Headings For
Cataloging - 2005 This...Section at NLM uses the Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH) thesaurus for assigning...
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/catpractices2005.html]
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Dec 2005
...Contact NLM | Site Map | FAQs Medical Subject Headings MeSH Home |
About MeSH...and Services > MeSH Use Of Medical Subject Headings For
Cataloging - 2006 With...Section at NLM uses the Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH) thesaurus for assigning...
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/catpractices2006.html]
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6. Medical Subject Headings Updated for 1998 - March/April 1998 -
Lister Hill Letter - Lister Hill Library [9K]
May 2010
...Table of Contents March/April 1998 Medical Subject Headings Updated for
1998 The medical subject headings upon which Medline is based were
updated...If you have questions about the Medical Subject Headings,
contact the Information Desk. Please...
[http://www.uab.edu/lister/letter/9802medsub.htm]
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7. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Section Records [10K]
Jan 2011
...Visit Us | Contact Us | Tours | FAQs | Copyright | HMD Site Map Home >
NLM Archives NLM Organizational Archives Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Section Records MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled
vocabulary thesaurus. It consists...
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/nlmarchives/mes...]
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8. New Medical Subject Headings [158K]
May 2010
...Site NLM Home | Contact NLM | Site Map | FAQs Medical Subject Headings
MeSH Home | About MeSH | MeSH Browser | MeSH...Library Catalogs and
Services > MeSH New 2002 Medical Subject Headings Alphabetic List Headings
are linked to the MeSH...
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/newd2002.html]
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9. A case study: using social tagging to engage students in learning
Medical Subject Headings.
Maggio, Lauren A / Bresnahan, Megan / Flynn, David B / Harzbecker, Joseph
/ Blanchard, Mary / Ginn, David, Journal of the Medical Library
Association : JMLA, 97 (2), p.77-83, Apr 2009
In exploring new ways of teaching students how to use Medical Subject
Headings (MeSH), librarians at Boston University's Alumni Medical Library
(AML) integrated social tagging into their instruction...
MEDLINE/PubMed Citation on MEDLINE
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10. Use of NLM medical subject headings with the MeSH2010 thesaurus in
the PORTAL-DOORS system.
Taswell, Carl, Studies in health technology and informatics, 159,
p.255-258, Jan 2010
The NLM MeSH Thesaurus has been incorporated for use in the PORTAL-DOORS
System (PDS) for resource metadata management on the semantic web. All
25588 descriptor records from the NLM 2010 MeSH Thesaurus have been
exposed as web accessible resources by the ...
MEDLINE/PubMed Citation on
11. Consistency and accuracy of the Medical Subject Headings thesaurus
for electronic indexing and retrieval of chronobiologic references.
Portaluppi, Francesco, Chronobiology international, 24 (6), p.1213-1229,
Jan 2007
The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability of the National
Library of Medicine (NLM)'s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus for
electronic indexing and retrieval of published chronobiologic papers. A
sample set of...
MEDLINE/PubMed Citation on MEDLINE
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12. Mapping of medical acronyms and initialisms to Medical Subject
Headings (MeSH) across selected systems.
Shultz, Mary, Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 94 (4),
p.410-414, Oct 2006
...than full phrases when searching online systems. The purpose of this
study is to evaluate how various MEDLINE Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
interfaces map acronyms and initialisms to the MeSH vocabulary. METHODS:
The interfaces used in this...
MEDLINE/PubMed Citation on MEDLINE
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13. Searching the literature using medical subject headings versus
text word with PubMed.
Chang, Angela A / Heskett, Karen M / Davidson, Terence M, The
Laryngoscope, 116 (2), p.336-340, Feb 2006
...surgery related conditions and diagnoses using PubMed. METHODS: Two
search strategies-one based on the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
and the second based on text word searching-were compared. RESULTS: The
MeSH search provided a more...
MEDLINE/PubMed Citation on MEDLINE
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14. Ontology annotation treebrowser : an interactive tool where the
complementarity of medical subject headings and gene ontology improves the
interpretation of gene lists.
Bresell, Anders / Servenius, Bo / Persson, Bengt, Applied bioinformatics,
5 (4), p.225-236, Jan 2006
...annotation data is stored in a relational MySQL database. In OAT, we
have harmonized the two ontologies of medical subject headings (MeSH) and
gene ontology (GO), to enable us to use knowledge both from the literature
and the annotation...
MEDLINE/PubMed Citation on MEDLINE
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15. Comparison of Medical Subject Headings and standard terminology
regarding performance of diagnostic tests.
Michel, Philippe / Mouillet, Evelyne / Salmi, L Rachid, Journal of the
Medical Library Association : JMLA, 94 (2), p.221-223, Apr 2006
MEDLINE/PubMed Citation on MEDLINE
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16. Herramientas para la recuperaci de la informaci: Los tminos MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings)
Camps, Diego / Recuero, Yanina / Avila, Rodolfo E. / Samar, Maria Elena,
article, Jan 2006
...informaci: Los tminos MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) Camps, Diego and
Recuero...informaci: Los tminos MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . MedUNAB
9(1):pp. 58-62...Abstract [Spanish abstract] Los Medical Subject Headings
o MeSH son el vocabulario controlado...
[http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006633/]
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17. Module 1: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or Keywords [1K]
May 2010
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or Keywords (Module 1 of 6)
[http://www.lib.purdue.edu/pnhs/medlinetutorial/mod1/mo...]
18. Comparison of Medical Subject Headings and text-word searches in
MEDLINE to retrieve studies on sleep in healthy individuals.
Jenuwine, Elizabeth S / Floyd, Judith A, Journal of the Medical Library
Association : JMLA, 92 (3), p.349-353, Jul 2004
...the sleep of healthy people from MEDLINE. METHODOLOGY: Two search
strategies-one based on the use of only Medical Subject Headings (MeSH),
the second based on text-word searching-were evaluated as to their
specificity and sensitivity...
MEDLINE/PubMed Citation on MEDLINE
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19. Medical Subject Headings (MESH) Fact Sheet [12K]
Jan 2011
...Services > Fact Sheets > Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Fact Sheet
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) The Thesaurus...Establishing and Updating
MeSH The Medical Subject Headings Section staff continually...
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/mesh.html]
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20. Variations in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) mapping: from the
natural language of patron terms to the controlled vocabulary of mapped
lists.
Gault, Lora V / Shultz, Mary / Davies, Kathy J, Journal of the Medical
Library Association : JMLA, 90 (2), p.173-180, Apr 2002
OBJECTIVES: This study compared the mapping of natural language patron
terms to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) across six MeSH interfaces
for the MEDLINE database. METHODS: Test data were obtained from search
requests submitted...
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