Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Mapping community-related MeSH

Search: communit*

Ovid result:
Residence Characteristics

PubMed MeSH DB results:
Community Pharmacy Services
Community Networks
Community Health Planning
Community Health Services
etc...

Humourous mapping results

Search: best practices

Ovid mapping results (in order of appearance):

United States
Benchmarking
Surgicentres
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Policy
Quality Assurance, Health Care
etc...

PubMed MeSH Database result:
Translational Research

Humourous, yes - and maybe a good example of how computers don't actually understand the words they take in and spit out?

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Mapping variation Ovid vs PubMed

The search "services" maps to different headings in Ovid and PubMed:

Ovid results:
Health Services Accessibility
Occupational Health Services

PubMed MeSH database results:
Health Services+
Health Services Needs and Demand
and many more...