Medical subject headings and medical terminology: an analysis of terminology used in hospital charts

Medical subject headings and medical terminology: an analysis of terminology used in hospital charts

Terminology used by health professionals in everyday written discourse was compared with terminology in a standardized medical vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Fifty written hospital charts were selected at random and analyzed by a computer program that identified MeSH terms in the c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1987-04, Vol.75 (2), p.89-94
Hauptverfasser: MASARIE, f. E. JR, MILLER, R. A
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Alphabetical subject indexing
Exact sciences and technology
General aspects
Hospital Records
Information and communication sciences
Information processing and retrieval
Information science. Documentation
Information storage and retrieval
Information work
Logical and linguistic tools
Medicine
MEDLARS
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
Natural language
Records as Topic
Sciences and techniques of general use
Software
Subject heading schemes
Subject Headings
Subject indexing
Technical services
Terminology
Terminology as Topic
Terminology. Lexicons. Thesaurus
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Zusammenfassung:Terminology used by health professionals in everyday written discourse was compared with terminology in a standardized medical vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Fifty written hospital charts were selected at random and analyzed by a computer program that identified MeSH terms in the charts. The charts were analyzed against two related MeSH vocabularies--one containing MeSH terms and one containing both MeSH terms and backwards cross-reference terms. When small words such as articles and prepositions were disregarded, approximately 50% of the words in a medical chart were found to be MeSH-related terminology. In addition, about 40% of MeSH-related words in the charts were either MeSH terms or backwards cross-reference terms.
ISSN:0025-7338