How to use the medical subject headings (MeSH)

Summary Background A thorough understanding of the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings can increase the efficiency and precision of one's literature searching skills using the Medline database. Aims To describe how to use the Medical Subject Headings to conduct a search...

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Published inInternational journal of clinical practice (Esher) Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 171 - 174
Main Author Baumann, N.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2016
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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Abstracting and Indexing as Topic
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
Medical Subject Headings
Medical Subject Headings-MeSH
MEDLINE
National libraries
Shareware
Subject heading schemes
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Summary:Summary Background A thorough understanding of the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings can increase the efficiency and precision of one's literature searching skills using the Medline database. Aims To describe how to use the Medical Subject Headings to conduct a search for literature, and how to write up a description of the search strategy. Materials and methods The author interprets National Library of Medicine documentation to describe Medical Subject Headings, and shares strategies from daily literature searching. Conclusion Knowing how to use Medical Subject Headings improves the efficiency and quality of one's literature searches.
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ArticleID:IJCP12767
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ISSN:1368-5031
1742-1241
1742-1241
DOI:10.1111/ijcp.12767