Controlled vocabulary
Appraisal of: Kahn TJ, Ninomiya H. Changing vocabularies: A guide to help bioethics searchers find relevant literature in National Library of Medicine databases using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) indexing vocabulary. Kennedy Inst Ethics J 2003; 13
The aim of the publications is to present a vocabulary on bioethics as part of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) catalog provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Washington (DC). The purpose of the authors is to help researchers to find publications on bioethics and related topics in MEDLINE/PubMed, LOCATORplus and other NLM’s Gateway system databases.
The publications provide information on the subset of keywords in bioethics as well as a list of the Bioethics Thesaurus Keywords and MeSH equivalents. Information is presented on how to use the subset “bioethics”, how to find publications by entering MeSH Headings and free-text queries in MEDLINE/PubMed, and when to use the MeSH Subheading “Ethics”. As well guidance on how to access and use the LOCATORplus database and limiting the retrieval results to bioethics-related publications, searching with MeSH Headings and free text queries is given.
The 2003 publication has been extended in 2005.
Appraisal of: Alton V, Eckerlund I, Norlund A. Health economic evaluations: how to find them. Int J Technol Assess Health Care 2006; 22(4):512-517.
Appraisal of: Hinde S, Spackman E, Claxton K, Sculpher M J. The cost-effectiveness threshold: the results of a novel literature review method. Value in Health 2011;14:A354.
Appraisal of: Golder S, Loke YK. Failure or success of electronic search strategies to identify adverse effects data. J Med Libr Assoc 2012;100(2):130-134.
Appraisal of: Golder S, McIntosh HM, Loke Y. Identifying systematic reviews of the adverse effects of health care interventions. BMC Med Res Methodol 2006;6:22.
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Appraisal of: Golder S, Loke Y. The performance of adverse effects search filters in MEDLINE and EMBASE. Health Info Libr J 2012;29(2):141-151.
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