Improving and expanding Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) during times of social change
In the summer of 2020, the Latinx Caucus of the Medical Library Association focused on addressing bias in medical subject heading terminologies by establishing the Hispanic/Latinx Inclusive Terminologies Project. Two project teams were formed.
Aidy Weeks +2 more
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Two Similarity Metrics for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): An Aid to Biomedical Text Mining and Author Name Disambiguation. [PDF]
Two Similarity Metrics for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): An Aid to Biomedical Text Mining and Author Name ...
Smalheiser NR, Bonifield G.
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The Need to Improve the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and the Excerpta Medica Tree (EMTREE) Thesauri to Perform Systematic Review on Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders. [PDF]
Background Despite recent advancements in the understanding and classification of oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMD), their terminology remains inconsistent and heterogeneous throughout the scientific literature, thus affecting evidence-based ...
Caponio VCA +5 more
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MesH es Sistema de Organización de Conocimiento digital que tiene papel protagónico en la organización y recuperación de información científica y de mayor impacto en las biociencias.
Layla Michán
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Global visibility for global health: Is it time for a new descriptor in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed? [PDF]
Despite a large body of research in global health (almost 9000 articles published in PubMed until 2012), the term “global health” is not included in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the NLM – its controlled vocabulary thesaurus which NLM uses to ...
Ana Marušic´
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Die Zukunft des Deutschen MeSH: Vom Übersetzungsprozess zum Terminologie-Service
The poster outlines which services and goals ZB MED has set itself by assuming responsibility for the German MeSH, the current status, future tasks and the relevance of the professional community in setting up our services.
Wollnik-Korn, Gabriele +5 more
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High-quality medical systematic reviews require comprehensive literature searches to ensure the recommendations and outcomes are sufficiently reliable.
Shuai Wang +3 more
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COS: A new MeSH term embedding incorporating corpus, ontology, and semantic predications.
The embedding of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms has become a foundation for many downstream bioinformatics tasks. Recent studies employ different data sources, such as the corpus (in which each document is indexed by a set of MeSH terms), the MeSH
Juncheng Ding, Wei Jin
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Searching of Literature Through Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): An Update
<p>Medical subject headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled and hierarchically organized vocabulary produced by NLM (National Library of Medicine). It is very useful for indexing, cataloging, and searching biomedical and health related ...
Vasudevan, Senthilvel
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Peripheral Neuropathy in Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases—Diagnosis and Treatment
Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is frequently observed in systemic rheumatic diseases and is a challenge in clinical practice. We aimed to review the evidence on the subject and proposed a comprehensive approach to these patients, facilitating diagnosis and ...
Jean Marcos De Souza +5 more
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