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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.  +Thank you for visiting ​the wiki! This page has moved to https://​github.com/​OHDSI/​Vocabulary-v5.0/​wiki/Vocab.-MeSH.
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-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. +
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-The purpose of having MeSH Concepts in the OMOP Standard Vocabularies is exclusively for mapping scientific literature to relevant Standard Concepts and supporting research. +
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-==== Transformation ===== +
-The procedures for transforming Concepts from the source to the OMOP Standard Vocabularies can be found [[https://​github.com/​OHDSI/​Vocabulary-v5.0/​tree/master/​MeSH|here]]. +
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-==== Concept Names ==== +
-Concept Names are taken from the "​str"​ field of the MRCONSO table of the UMLS metathesaurus. +
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-==== Concept Codes ==== +
-Concept Codes are taken from the "​code"​ field of the MRCONSO table of the UMLS metathesaurus. +
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-==== Standard Concepts ==== +
-All MeSH Concepts are non-Standard. +
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-==== Concept Classes ==== +
-Two types of MeSH Concepts are incorporated into the vocabularies:​ Main Headings and Supplementary Concepts. Maing Headings, also known as Descriptors,​ are used to index the abstracts in Pubmed. Supplementary Concepts are used to index chemicals, drugs, and other concepts such as rare diseases. +
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-^Concept Class^Notes^ +
-|Main Heading|The concept_code always starts with D| +
-|Suppl Concept|The concept_code always starts with C| +
-|Condition|Only deprecated legacy concepts| +
-|Drug|Only deprecated legacy concepts| +
-|Measurement|Only deprecated legacy concepts| +
-|Observation|Only deprecated legacy concepts| +
-|Procedure|Only deprecated legacy concepts| +
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-==== Domains ==== +
-For each MeSH Concept, the Domain is inferred from the Concept it is mapped to.  +
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-^Domain^Count (May 2016)^ +
-|Condition|5022| +
-|Drug|3991| +
-|Measurement|217| +
-|Procedure|749| +
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-==== Concept Relationships ==== +
-There are only mapping relationships defined for MeSH. +
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-==== Hierarchy ==== +
-MeSH Concepts are non-Standard Concepts and therefore do not participate in the hierarchy of the CONCEPT_ANCESTOR table. The hierarchical relationships MeSH Concepts have to each other, in particular the Supplementary Concepts have to the Main Headings, are not reproduced in the OMOP Standard Vocabularies.+
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