Medical vocabulary changes in PubMed or Medline

Overview of Vocab­u­lary Devel­op­ment and Changes for 2012 MeSH

  • 454 Descrip­tors added
  • 42 Descrip­tor terms replaced with more up-to-date terminology
  • 15 Descrip­tors deleted

Totals by Type of Terminology

  • 26,582 Descrip­tors
  • 83 Qual­i­fiers
  • 202,066 Sup­ple­men­tary Con­cept Records (SCRs)

Help­ful Links

Please con­sult the 2012 online Intro­duc­tion to MeSH for more details. Lists of new and changed vocab­u­lary are avail­able at these links:

MeSH Vocab­u­lary Changes
New Descrip­tors — 2012
Changed Descrip­tors — 2012
Deleted Descrip­tors — 2012
New Descrip­tors by Tree Sub­cat­e­gory — 2012

Source: NLM New files for the week of Dec 5, 2011

MeSH, Medical Subject Headings from NLM (National Library of Medicine)

MeSH is a great resource,a the­saurus, espe­cially sig­nif­i­cant if you access Med­line – from what­ever source.  (PubMed is the free ver­sion, acces­si­ble every­where any­one has access to the internet.)

MeSH means Med­ical Sub­ject Headings.  They are assigned by index­ers at the National Library of Med­i­cine.  This the­saurus is com­plete with def­i­n­i­tions or scope notes.  It is orga­nized in a hier­ar­chi­cal fash­ion so that if you wanted to search all antibi­otics, for exam­ple, you wouldn’t have to sep­a­rately type all of them, but could just “explode” the main heading.  You can limit the head­ings to a major con­cept, the most impor­tant concept(s) in the arti­cle.  You can also attach sub­head­ings, such as adverse effects of antibi­otics.

 

PubMed adds citations to books and chapters — from “Bookshelf”

Source:  NLM-ANNOUNCES@LIST.NIH.GOV

The National Library of Med­i­cine  Week of Apr 5, 2010

 
 *NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, Mar-Apr 2010, Book Cita­tions Added to PubMed and Changes to Displays

It’s new and books are not retriev­able labled as such in PubMed, but they will be retrieved in Med­line searches.  Book­shelf is sep­a­rately searchable.

For exam­ple, if you search (in PubMed/Medline) fein­gold syn­drome in the title, you will retrieve the book, chap­ter, or doc­u­ment, as well as arti­cles, too.  NIH is now using color high­lights to clearly indi­cate full text availability.

Fein­gold syn­drome searched in the field labeled book, will retrieve 0.

The fol­low­ing search terms can be used to retrieve the Book­shelf cita­tions in PubMed, e.g.,    pmc­book fein­gold syn­drome:

  To retrieve books and chapters: pmc­book
  To retrieve books: pmc­book­ti­tle
  To retrieve book chapters: pmc­bookchap­ter

PubMed adding related review articles to specific articles

News from the National Library of Med­i­cine, from “NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin”, May-June, 2008, No. 362:

Soon we are likely to encounter – in PubMed’s “Abstract­Plus” for­mat – related review arti­cles listed by decreas­ing relevancy, in a box at the lower right.   Above at the right are related references.

For an illus­tra­tion, see:

  *NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, May-Jun 2008, Related Reviews Com­ing to Abstract­Plus in PubMed
 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj08/mj08_related_reviews.html
 

Journals added to PubMed

The NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin dated March-April, 2008,  announces index­ing cov­er­age  for, and inclu­sion of 7 new jour­nals, the most sig­nif­i­cant of which might beThe Jour­nal of Cell Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Sig­nal­ing and BMC Med­ical Physics.

NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, Mar-Apr 2008, PubMed Cen­tral: New Jour­nals Par­tic­i­pat­ing and New Con­tent Added:   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_pmc.html