{"id":1549,"date":"2018-01-11T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:24:28","slug":"multimorbidity-has-become-a-medical-subject-heading-mesh-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Multimorbidity has become a Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n    !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">By Martin Fortin<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Fortin-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1550\" title=\"Martin Fortin 3\" src=\"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Fortin-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Medical Subject Headings (MeSH\u00ae) is the National Library of Medicine (NLM)&#8217;s controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The MeSH thesaurus is used by NLM for indexing articles from the world&#8217;s leading biomedical journals for the MEDLINE\u00ae\/PubMED\u00ae database.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Until the end of 2017, the term multimorbidity was not a MeSH. The term was a subheading under the term comorbidity. As a consequence, a search for the term multimorbidity in PubMED yielded thousands of publications that included those using the term multimorbidity and\/or comorbidity.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Starting in January 2018, multimorbidity is now a MeSH heading:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/meshb.nlm.nih.gov\/record\/ui?ui=D000076322\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/meshb.nlm.nih.gov\/record\/ui?ui=D000076322 <\/a><\/div>\n<div>This will facilitate the indexing and search of articles on this subject.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">We believe that the ever increasing number of publications on multimorbidity, which includes articles from those participating in this community, has led to the recognition of the importance of the term, and deserves a congratulation to all those who have contributed to making the term achieve this important recognition.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet By Martin Fortin Medical Subject Headings (MeSH\u00ae) is the National Library of Medicine (NLM)&#8217;s controlled vocabulary thesaurus. 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