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| ===== MeSH ===== | ===== MeSH ===== | ||
| - | MeSH stands for Medical Subject Heading and is a vocabulary used for indexing articles for PubMed, the US National Library of Medicine (NLM's) bibliographic database of biomedical literature. | + | MeSH stands for Medical Subject Heading and is a vocabulary used for indexing articles for [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/|PubMed]], the US National Library of Medicine (NLM's) bibliographic database of biomedical literature. Each abstract in Pubmed has a set of search keywords assigned to it that are relevant to the content of the publication. These keywords are organized in MeSH. |
| - | MeSH is very large, and therefore only those Concepts are imported to the OMOP Standardized Vocabulary System that have a mapping to a Concept in one of the vocabularies RxNorm, SNOMED, CPT4 and HCPCS. This is in contrast to all other vocabularies, which are loaded completely, including legacy Concepts. | + | MeSH is very large, and therefore only those Concepts are imported to the OMOP Standardized Vocabulary System that have a mapping to a Standard Concept in one of the vocabularies RxNorm, SNOMED, CPT4 and HCPCS. This is in contrast to all other vocabularies, which are loaded completely, including legacy Concepts. |
| - | The purpose of having MeSH Concepts in the OMOP Standard Vocabularies is exclusively for mapping scientific literature to relevant Standard Concepts and supporting research. | + | The purpose of having MeSH Concepts in the OMOP Standard Vocabularies is exclusively for mapping scientific literature to relevant Standard Concepts to support research. |
| ==== Transformation ===== | ==== Transformation ===== | ||
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| ==== Concept Names ==== | ==== Concept Names ==== | ||
| - | Concepts are assigned the description from the "str" field of the MRCONSO table of the UMLS metathesaurus. | + | Concept Names are taken from the "str" field of the MRCONSO table of the UMLS metathesaurus. |
| - | ==== Concept Code ==== | + | ==== Concept Codes ==== |
| - | Concepts are assigned the content of the "code" field of the MRCONSO table of the UMLS metathesaurus. | + | Concept Codes are taken from the "code" field of the MRCONSO table of the UMLS metathesaurus. |
| ==== Standard Concepts ==== | ==== Standard Concepts ==== | ||
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