Understanding and using the medical subject headings (MeSH) vocabulary to perform literature searches. Export

@article{citeulike:992820, abstract = {The United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE database is the largest and most widely used medical bibliographic database. MEDLINE is manually indexed with NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary. Using MeSH, a searcher can potentially create powerful and unambiguous MEDLINE queries. This article reviews the structure and use of MeSH, directed toward the nonexpert, and outlines how MeSH may help resolve a number of common difficulties encountered when searching MEDLINE. The increasing importance of the MEDLINE database as an information resource and the trend toward individuals performing their own bibliographic searches makes it crucial that health care professionals become familiar with MeSH.}, address = {Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachussetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.}, author = {Lowe, H. J. and Barnett, G. O.}, citeulike-article-id = {992820}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8151853}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=8151853}, day = {13}, issn = {0098-7484}, journal = {JAMA}, keywords = {medline, mesh}, month = {April}, number = {14}, pages = {1103--1108}, posted-at = {2008-01-25 22:32:55}, priority = {0}, title = {Understanding and using the medical subject headings (MeSH) vocabulary to perform literature searches.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8151853}, volume = {271}, year = {1994} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:992820 L3 - citeulike-article-id:992820 N2 - The United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE database is the largest and most widely used medical bibliographic database. MEDLINE is manually indexed with NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary. Using MeSH, a searcher can potentially create powerful and unambiguous MEDLINE queries. This article reviews the structure and use of MeSH, directed toward the nonexpert, and outlines how MeSH may help resolve a number of common difficulties encountered when searching MEDLINE. The increasing importance of the MEDLINE database as an information resource and the trend toward individuals performing their own bibliographic searches makes it crucial that health care professionals become familiar with MeSH. IS - 14 JF - JAMA SN - 0098-7484 AD - Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachussetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. EP - 1108 TI - Understanding and using the medical subject headings (MeSH) vocabulary to perform literature searches. VL - 271 SP - 1103 KW - medline KW - mesh AU - Lowe, HJ AU - Barnett, GO PY - 1994/04/13/ UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8151853 ER -