Characterization of the Medical Subject Headings thesaurus for pharmacy

Minguet, Fernando; Boogerd, Lucienne van den; Salgado, Teresa M.; Correr, Cassyano Januário; Fernández-Llimós, Fernando

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“…Of note, is that the pharmacy-specific MeSH terms less frequently used (under 5%) were used to index a total of 1201 articles, whereas a previous research showed that over 2000 pharmacy articles, on average, would be indexed under the 17 proposed pharmacy-specific MeSH terms. 9 Another example of a potential inappropriateness in MeSH assignment in the pharmacy field is that about 12% (n ¼ 107) of the articles published in the Am J Pharm Educ, whose purpose is "to document and advance pharmaceutical education in the United States and internationally" (as defined by the journal's editorial board), were not indexed with any of the education specific MeSH terms: 'Education, Pharmacy,' 'Education, Pharmacy, Continuing,' or 'Education, Pharmacy, Graduate.' A similar study on the field of Pharmacoepidemiology/Drug Utilization analyzed the indexation of published articles under the MeSH terms "Pharmacoepidemiology," Table 5 Prevalence of pharmacy-specific MeSH terms used to index articles in each of the pharmacy journals analyzed "Drug Utilization" and "Drug Utilization Review."…”

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“…6 PubMed uses the NLM's controlled vocabulary thesaurus -the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) -for indexing and cataloging articles. 7,8 Although criticized for not appropriately covering some areas, such as pharmacy, 9 the MeSH database is continuously updated and revised annually. 7 The intent of using the MeSH terminology is to facilitate search retrieval by eliminating (or accounting for) the use of variant terminology for the same concept.…”

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“…29 In the pharmacy field, an imbalance was found in MeSH coverage of pharmacy concepts relative to MeSH terminology specific to the nursing and dentistry professions. 9 Only 26 pharmacy-specific MeSH terms currently existing in the MeSH thesaurus were identified, as opposed to 94 and 145 nursing-and dentistry-specific, respectively. 9 Additionally the inclusion of 17 new MeSH terms based on a systematic and objective method was proposed.…”

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“…9 Additionally the inclusion of 17 new MeSH terms based on a systematic and objective method was proposed. 9 Considering that the quality of indexing and consistent use of terminology are of major importance to increase the chance of successful literature retrieval and citing, 22 the aim of the present study was to assess the quality of assignment of the existing pharmacy-specific MeSH terms to articles indexed in pharmacy journals.…”

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“…This knowledge representation is a list of codes that can be used to classify appraisals. Other coding schemes or controlled vocabularies, such as Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), facilitate information retrieval and contextualization (Minguet et al , 2014). Similarly, this knowledge representation for appraisal concepts seek to improve data management by enabling structured annotation and large-scale reasoning, which in the long-term will impart actionable knowledge for clinical, scientific, policy decision-making, and for meta-research.…”

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Analysis of evidence appraisals for interventional studies in family medicine using an informatics approach

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Goldstein

Weng

2019

Prim Health Care Res Dev

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This study reports the first assessment of published comments in the family medicine literature using structured codes, which produced commentary annotations that will be the foundation of a knowledge base of appraisals of family medicine trials. Evidence appraisal occurs in a variety of formats and serves to shed light on the quality of research. However, scientific discourse generally and evidence appraisal in particular has not itself been analyzed for insights. A search strategy was devised to identify all journal comments indexed in PubMed linked to controlled intervention studies published in a recent 15-year period in major family medicine journals. A previously developed structured representation in the form of a list of appraisal concepts was used to formally annotate and categorize the journal comments through an iterative process. Trends in family medicine evidence appraisal were then analyzed. A total of 93 comments on studies from five journals over 15 years were included in the analysis. Two thirds of extracted appraisals were negative criticisms. All appraisals of measurement instruments were negative (100%). The participants baseline characteristics, the author discussions, and the design of the interventions were also criticized (respectively 91.7%, 84.6% and 83.3% negative). In contrast, appraisals of the scientific basis of the studies were positive (81.8%). The categories with the most appraisals were, most generally, those focused on the study design, and most specifically, those focused on the scientific basis. This study provides a new data-driven approach to review scientific discourse regarding the strengths and limitations of research within academic family medicine. This methodology can potentially generalize to other medical domains. Structured appraisal data generated here will enable future clinical, scientific, and policy decision-making and broader meta-research in family medicine.

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Redefining the pharmacology and pharmacy subject category in the journal citation reports using medical subject headings (MeSH)

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Background The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Pharmacology and Pharmacy subject category is heterogeneous. The inclusion of journals with basic and clinical scopes, which have different citation patterns, compromises comparability of impact factors among journals within the category. Objective To subdivide the Pharmacology and Pharmacy category into basic pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, and pharmacy based on the analyses of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) as a proxy of journals' scopes. Setting JCR. Method All articles, and respective MeSH, published in 2013, 2014, and 2015 in all journals included in the 2014 JCR Pharmacology and Pharmacy category were retrieved from PubMed. Several models using a combination of the 14 MeSH categories and specific MeSH tree branches were tested using hierarchical cluster analysis. Main outcome measure Distribution of journals across the subcategories of the JCR Pharmacology and Pharmacy subject category. Results A total of 107,847 articles from 214 journals were included. Nine different models combining the MeSH categories M (Persons) and N (Health Care) with specific MeSH tree branches (selected ad-hoc) and Pharmacy-specific MeSH (identified in previous research) consistently grouped 142 journals (66.4%) in homogeneous groups reflecting their basic and clinical pharmacology, and pharmacy scopes. Ultimately, journals were clustered into: 150 in basic pharmacology, 43 in clinical pharmacology, 16 in basic pharmacology and clinical pharmacology, and 5 in pharmacy. Conclusion The reformulation of the Pharmacology and Pharmacy category into three categories was demonstrated by the consistent results obtained from testing nine different clustering models using the MeSH terms assigned to their articles.

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Characterization of the Medical Subject Headings thesaurus for pharmacy

Abstract: Imbalances and gaps were found in MeSH coverage of pharmacy concepts and terminology relative to MeSH terminology specific to the nursing and dentistry professions.

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

Quality of pharmacy-specific Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) assignment in pharmacy journals indexed in MEDLINE

Quality of pharmacy-specific Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) assignment in pharmacy journals indexed in MEDLINE

Analysis of evidence appraisals for interventional studies in family medicine using an informatics approach

Redefining the pharmacology and pharmacy subject category in the journal citation reports using medical subject headings (MeSH)

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