"Medical Subject Headings" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Controlled vocabulary thesaurus produced by the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.
| Descriptor ID |
D046650
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| MeSH Number(s) |
L01.453.245.945.700.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Medical Subject Headings- Medical Subject Headings
- Medical Subject Heading
- Subject Heading, Medical
- Subject Headings, Medical
- MeSH Headings
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medical Subject Headings" by people in Profiles.
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NewsMeSH: A new classifier designed to annotate health news with MeSH headings. Artif Intell Med. 2021 04; 114:102053.
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Searching PubMed to Retrieve Publications on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparative Analysis of Search Strings. J Med Internet Res. 2020 11 26; 22(11):e23449.
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Analysis of COVID-19 clinical trials: A data-driven, ontology-based, and natural language processing approach. PLoS One. 2020; 15(9):e0239694.
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A comparison of metrics and performance characteristics of different search strategies for article retrieval for a systematic review of the global epidemiology of kidney and urinary diseases. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2018 10 19; 18(1):110.
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PubMed search filters for the study of putative outdoor air pollution determinants of disease. BMJ Open. 2016 12 21; 6(12):e013092.
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Difficulties and challenges associated with literature searches in operating room management, complete with recommendations. Anesth Analg. 2013 Dec; 117(6):1460-79.
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Search filters can find some but not all knowledge translation articles in MEDLINE: an analytic survey. J Clin Epidemiol. 2012 Jun; 65(6):651-9.