scholarly journals Using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) to Enhance PubMed Search Strategies for Evidence-Based Practice in Physical Therapy

2012 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy R. Richter ◽  
Tricia M. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Search Strategy ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Mesh Term ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Pubmed Search

Background Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an important paradigm in health care. Physical therapists report lack of knowledge and time constraints as barriers to EBP. Objective The purpose of this technical report is to illustrate how Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), a controlled vocabulary thesaurus of indexing terms, is used to efficiently search MEDLINE, the largest component of PubMed. Using clinical questions, this report illustrates how search terms common to physical therapist practice do or do not map to appropriate MeSH terms. A PubMed search strategy that takes advantage of text words and MeSH terms is provided. Results A search of 139 terms and 13 acronyms was conducted to determine whether they appropriately mapped to a MeSH term. The search results were categorized into 1 of 5 outcomes. Nearly half (66/139) of the search terms mapped to an appropriate MeSH term (outcome 1). When a search term did not appropriately map to a MeSH term, it was entered into the MeSH database to search for an appropriate MeSH term. Twenty-one appropriate MeSH terms were found (outcomes 2 and 4), and there were 52 search terms for which an appropriate MeSH term was not found (outcomes 3 and 5). Nearly half of the acronyms did not map to an appropriate MeSH term, and an appropriate MeSH term was not found in the database. Limitations The results are based on a limited number of search terms and acronyms. Conclusions Understanding how search terms map to MeSH terms and using the PubMed search strategy can enable physical therapists to take full advantage of available MeSH terms and should result in more-efficient and better-informed searches.

scholarly journals P.1.28 Air pollution and diseases: a practical tool for effective pubmed search

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. A84.3-A84
Author(s):  
Stefania Curti ◽  
Stefano Mattioli
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Outdoor Air ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Outdoor Air Pollution ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Search Filters ◽  
Pubmed Search ◽  
Practical Tool

ObjectivesTo identify efficient PubMed search filters for the study of outdoor air pollution determinants of diseases.MethodsWe listed Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and non-MeSH terms that seemed pertinent to outdoor air pollutants exposure as determinants of diseases. Proportions of potentially pertinent articles retrieved by each term were estimated. We then formulated two filters: one ‘more specific’, one ‘more sensitive’. Their performances were compared with a gold standard of systematic reviews on associations between diseases and outdoor air pollution. We calculated, for both the filters, the number (of abstract) needed to read (NNR) to identify one potentially pertinent article, exploring three diseases potentially associated with outdoor air pollution.ResultsThe combination of terms that yielded a threshold of potentially pertinent articles≥40% permitted to formulate the ‘more specific’ filter. On the basis of the combination of all search terms under study we formulated the ‘more sensitive’ filter. In comparison with the gold standard, the ‘more specific’ filter had the highest specificity (67.4%; with a sensitivity of 82.5%) and the ‘more sensitive’ filter had the highest sensitivity (98.5%; with a specificity of 47.9%). For the ‘more specific’ filter and the ‘more sensitive’ one the NNR to find one potentially pertinent article was 1.9 and 3.3, respectively.ConclusionsThe proposed search filters help investigating environmental determinants of medical conditions. We published them on: Curti S et al. PubMed search filters for the study of putative outdoor air pollution determinants of disease. BMJ Open. 2016;6 (12):e013092.

The Role of Technology and Informatics in Disaster Planning and Response

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Weiner ◽  
Lynn A. Slepski
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Planning ◽  
Mesh Term ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Humanitarian Response ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Pubmed Search ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

It is clear that technology and informatics are becoming increasingly important in disasters and humanitarian response. Technology is a critical tool to recording, analyzing, and predicting trends in data that could not be achieved prior to its implementation. Informatics is the translation of this data into information, knowledge, and wisdom. Combining technology and informatics applications with response efforts has resulted in various enhanced biosurveillance efforts, advanced communications, and information management during disasters. Although these efforts have been well described in the literature, research on the impact of technology and informatics during these efforts has been limited. As a result, this chapter will provide an overview of these technology and informatics solutions and present suggestions for further research in an era when disaster and humanitarian response efforts continue to increase as well. A literature search was performed using PubMed search tools with the National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms of “disasters,” “disaster planning,” “disaster medicine,” “technology,” “informatics,” and “research.” Search limitations were set for 5 years and in English. Because of the limited number of research articles in this field, the MeSH term research was deleted.

scholarly journals Two Similarity Metrics for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): An Aid to Biomedical Text Mining and Author Name Disambiguation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil R Smalheiser ◽  
Gary Bonifield
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Mesh Term ◽  
The Body ◽  
Similarity Metrics ◽  
Name Disambiguation ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Author Name Disambiguation ◽  
Subject Headings

In the present paper, we have created and characterized several similarity metrics for relating any two Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) to each other. The article-based metric measures the tendency of two MeSH terms to appear in the MEDLINE record of the same article. The author-based metric measures the tendency of two MeSH terms to appear in the body of articles written by the same individual (using the 2009 Author-ity author name disambiguation dataset as a gold standard). The two metrics are only modestly correlated with each other (r = 0.50), indicating that they capture different aspects of term usage. The article-based metric provides a measure of semantic relatedness, and MeSH term pairs that co-occur more often than expected by chance may reflect relations between the two terms. In contrast, the author metric is indicative of how individuals practice science, and may have value for author name disambiguation and studies of scientific discovery. We have calculated article metrics for all MeSH terms appearing in at least 25 articles in MEDLINE (as of 2014) and author metrics for MeSH terms published as of 2009. The dataset is freely available for download and can be queried at http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu/arrowsmith_uic/mesh_pair_metrics.html.

Quality improvement research in oncology: A bibliometric analysis.

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (34_suppl) ◽  
pp. 159-159
Author(s):  
Samir Mohamed Haq ◽  
Knox H. Todd
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mesh Term ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Quality Improvement Research ◽  
Oncology Research ◽  
Pubmed Search

159 Background: As part of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, the U.S. government has established a “National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care,” with the goal of implementing evidence-based research into practice. The quantity of oncology research devoted to quality improvement is uncertain. We use the percentage of quality improvement articles in the oncology literature as a proxy metric to gauge the importance given to quality improvement in oncology. Methods: A MEDLINE literature search was performed on July 14, 2012. We approximated the number of articles published in the field of oncology using a PubMed search with the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) term “neoplasm” or keywords “neoplasm,” “cancer,” or “oncology.” Results were limited to English language and publication dates between July 2010 and June 2012. From this data, the number of articles concerning quality improvement was approximated using the MeSH term “quality improvement” or keywords “quality improvement.” Results: Of approximately 246,000 English language, oncology-related articles published in the last two years, 314 focused on “quality improvement.” The topic of quality improvement comprised only 0.1% of the oncology literature over this period. Conclusions: Using bibliometric analysis, it appears that research on quality improvement in oncology is infrequent. Quality improvement research has been found effective in other fields and requires increased emphasis by the oncology research community. To improve the quality of care in oncology, evidence-based research in the field of quality improvement should increase.

scholarly journals El diseño de preguntas clínicas en la práctica basada en la evidencia. Modelos de formulación

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Daniel Martínez Díaz ◽  
Verónica Ortega Chacón ◽  
Francisco José Muñoz Ronda
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Subject Headings

Objetivo: Identificar estructuras estandarizadas para la formulación de preguntas clínicas en el marco de la práctica basada en la evidencia. <br /><br />Método: Se realizó una revisión de la literatura. La  búsqueda bibliográfica se efectuó en las bases de datos MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE y LILACS, y en el buscador académico Google Scholar. Se efectuaron estrategias de búsqueda sensibles y acordes a cada base de datos. Límites de búsqueda: intervalo de tiempo (enero de 1995 a abril de 2015), idioma (artículos en inglés). Se usaron palabras clave libres  y descriptores del Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) pertinentes: evidence based practice, question, formulation, well-built question, framework. <br /><br />Resultados: Se encontraron 10 manuscritos que aportaron el diseño original de estructuras para la formulación de preguntas clínicas en el ámbito de la práctica basada en la evidencia. El modelo PICO es la estructura más conocida y comúnmente utilizada en investigación cuantitativa y de él derivan los modelos PICOT, PICOTT, PICOS, PIPOH, PECORD, PESICO. En el campo de la gestión sanitaria la estructura ECLIPSE se erige para formulación de preguntas relacionadas con la gestión. Por último, para la búsqueda de evidencias cualitativas se han configurado los modelos SPICE y SPIDER adecuando sus componentes al fenómeno cualitativo. <br /><br />Conclusiones: Estos modelos estandarizadas se comportan como un instrumento idóneo para guiar la estrategia de búsqueda y delimitar el área de interés. Dada la gran variedad de piezas que integran las estructuras, su conocimiento exhaustivo acrecienta sus usos potenciales. Estas estructuras no deben ser consideradas como una guía rígida a la que ceñirse ineludiblemente.<br /><br />

scholarly journals P055: State of the evidence for emergency medical services (EMS) provision of palliative care: an analysis of appraised research from the Canadian Prehospital Evidence-based Practice (PEP) Project

CJEM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (S1) ◽  
pp. S97-S97
Author(s):  
A. Carter ◽  
J. Greene ◽  
J. Cook ◽  
J. Goldstein ◽  
J. Jensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Symptom Relief ◽  
Included Study ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Relevant Evidence ◽  
Pubmed Search

Introduction: Patients who require end of life (EoL)/palliative care occasionally need assistance from paramedics. This review evaluated the evidence for paramedic-delivered EoL/palliative care interventions. Methods: The Canadian Prehospital Evidence-based Practice (PEP) Project methodology was used. A PubMed search was conducted, using Medical Subject headings and title/abstract key words. Titles and abstracts were reviewed for relevance. Studies were not required to be EMS based but must have focused on interventions available to EMS personnel. Included full text studies were scored by trained primary appraisers on a three-point Level of Evidence (LOE) scale (high = 1, moderate = 2 and low = 3) and three-point Direction of Evidence (DOE) scale (supportive, neutral, or opposing). Studies were categorized by clinical condition (n=5) and by intervention (n=25), and plotted on 3×3 (DOE × LOE) tables. The study primary outcome and setting were determined. Results: The search returned 3255 articles; 86 were selected for abstract review; with 30 full text articles ultimately included. Intervention recommendations were: LOE 1-supportive (n=3, 12%), 2-supportive (n=2, 8%), 3-supportive (n=2, 8%), 1-neutral (n=2, 8%), 2-neutral (n=2, 8%), 3-neutral (n=4, 16%). No primary studies were identified for 10 (40%) interventions. Conditions with 1-supportive studies were: ‘breathlessness’ and ‘analgesia’. ‘Secretions’ condition had no relevant evidence. Interventions with 1-supportive evidence were: Haldol for agitation (n=1), fentanyl and morphine for analgesia (n=3 and n=1), narcotics for breathlessness (n=1). No intervention had opposing evidence. Primary outcomes were more commonly related to symptom relief (n=26, 87%), safety (n=3, 10%), or tolerability (n=1, 3%). Only one included study was conducted in the EMS setting. Conclusion: Evidence for interventions used by paramedics in the treatment of patients requiring EoL/palliative care was identified, as were evidence gaps. Little research was conducted in the EMS setting, and most interventions had few studies. These PEP findings highlight topics requiring high quality EMS research specific to EoL/palliative care to inform this growing aspect of paramedic practice.

scholarly journals Mapping the biomedical sciences using Medical Subject Headings: a comparison between MeSH co-assignments and MeSH citation pairs

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Shu ◽  
Junping Qiu ◽  
Vincent Larivière
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Mesh Term ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Direct Citation ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: This study compares two maps of biomedical sciences using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) term co-assignments versus MeSH terms of citing/cited articles and reveals similarities and differences between the two approaches. Methods: MeSH terms assigned to 397,475 journal articles published in 2015, as well as their 4,632,992 cited references, were retrieved from Web of Science and MEDLINE databases, respectively, which formed over 7 million MeSH co-assignments and nearly 18 million direct citation pairs. We generated six network visualizations of biomedical science at three levels using Gephi software based on these MeSH co-assignments and citation pairs.Results: The MeSH co-assignment map contained more nodes and edges, as MeSH co-assignments cover all medical topics discussed in articles. By contrast, the MeSH citation map contained fewer but larger nodes and wider edges, as citation links indicate connections to two similar medical topics. Conclusion: These two types of maps emphasize different aspects of biomedical sciences, with MeSH co-assignment maps focusing on the relationship between topics in different categories and MeSH direct citation maps providing insights into relationships between topics in the same or similar category.

Evidence-based Practice regarding knowledge, attitude and perceived barriers of Mangalore Physical Therapists: A Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 7056-7063
Author(s):  
Vineel P ◽  
Gopala Krishna Alaparthi ◽  
Kalyana Chakravarthy Bairapareddy ◽  
Sampath Kumar Amaravadi
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
The Individual

  Evidence-based Practice is defined as usage of current best evidence which is conscientious, explicit and judicious in deciding on the care of the individual. It is one of the vital decision-making processes in the medical profession. Though India is renowned as a center for medical education, there is scarcity regarding the literature on evidence-based practice. The survey aims to identify the prevalence of evidence-based practice among the physical therapists of Mangalore. The study protocol submitted to scientific research committee and Ethical institutional committee, K.M.C. Mangalore Manipal University. On approval, the questionnaire had been distributed among the physical therapists of Mangalore through mails and in the written form. The questionnaire consists of questions divided into eight sections: 1) consent form 2) current practice status; 3) demographic data; 4) behavior; 5) previous knowledge of E.B.P. resources; 6) skills and available resources; 7) Opinions regarding E.B.P.; 8)Perceived barriers regarding E.B.P. The emails were sent through Google forms to all the physical therapists, and hard copies were distributed among the selected physical therapists. The response rate for the emails was 13.1%. The response collected through hard copies was 178, whereas total hard copies distributed was 320, the participants rejected some due to lack of interest. In total, including emails and hard copy questionnaire 205 was the response rate in which all were practicing physical therapy as their primary profession. The findings of the study will pave the way to identify the status of evidence-based practice as well as help in designing promotional programmers for evidence-based practice.

scholarly journals ASSOCIATION OF DELIRIUM AND FRAGILITY IN HOSPITALIZED ELDERLY: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clovis Cechinel ◽  
◽  
Joao Alberto Martins Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Hospitalized Elderly ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Review Question ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Specific Search

Review question / Objective: What is the relationship between delirium and frailty in hospitalized elderly people? The objective of this research is to analyze the association between frailty and delirium in hospitalized elderly people, through a systematic literature review. Condition being studied: Frailty and delirium in hospitalized aged. Information sources: A specific search strategy for the language of each database was developed using, initially, the Medical Subject Headings (MEsH) descriptor and later translated to specific descriptors (Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) and Embase Subject Headings (Emtree)). The search strategy will be applied by the researchers in the MEDLINE databases through the Pubmed Portal; Scielo; VHL; EMBASE, CINAHL, Scopus and Web of Science through the CAPES Journal Portal; CENTRAL via Cochrane.

scholarly journals Evidence-based practice questionnaire for physical therapists: Portuguese translation, adaptation, validity, and reliability

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Ricardo Maia Ferreira ◽  
Pedro Lopes Ferreira ◽  
Luis Cavalheiro ◽  
José Alberto Duarte ◽  
Rui Soles Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
European Portuguese ◽  
Draft Version ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

BACKGROUND: Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is becoming increasingly important in Physical Therapy (PT). For proper designing, implementing, disseminating and evaluating EBP in PT, a valid and reliable questionnaire measuring attitudes, knowledge, behavior, prerequisites, and barriers related to EBP and guidelines is needed. One questionnaire that could be used to collect this information is the “EBP Questionnaire”, developed by Jette et al. 2003. However, to our knowledge, no Portuguese version or published study with the Portuguese PT population was performed using this questionnaire. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to translate, cross-culturally adapt and validate the “EBP Questionnaire” to European Portuguese and for the PT population. Material and Methods: A draft version was pilot tested for content validity (n=17), and a revised version was tested for test-retest reliability (n=72). The percentage of agreement and the Kappa coefficients between the 2 tests were analyzed. Additionally, the internal consistency was calculated. RESULTS: The preliminary final version of the European Portuguese EBP questionnaire was well accepted (only the items 22, 23, 45-51 needed to be reviewed). The mean average percentage of agreement was 82% (ranged 58–97%), and the Kappa coefficients were 0.658 (ranged 0.336–0.844). In the internal consistency, the mean average Cronbach’s α coefficients were 0.665 (ranged 0.365–0.879). CONCLUSION: The results suggested that this questionnaire can be a useful instrument for measuring self-reported beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors related to EBP in the Portuguese PTs context.

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