Probably you've already noticed that if you explode a term in EBSCO's PsycInfo, it only explodes down by one level. In other words, if your term's narrower terms have any narrower terms, those grandchildren will not be included in the explosion.
This is a real pain when you're trying to find information about all mental disorders. You've gotta chase down every last narrower term and add it to your search.
It's time consuming, and of course particularly galling because it's not a problem in any other database.
However, if I save and re-use the full explosion of Mental Disorders, what if APA decides to add another narrower term to the list between when I saved it and when I use it? Potential for missing something of importance.
However, life is short and work is plentiful. I'm darned if I'm doing this over and over.
So, here is the complete explosion of Mental Disorders as of June 17, 2014:
DE
"Mental Disorders" OR DE "Adjustment Disorders" OR DE
"Affective Disorders" OR DE "Alexithymia" OR DE
"Anxiety Disorders" OR DE "Autism" OR DE "Chronic
Mental Illness" OR DE "Dementia" OR DE "Dissociative
Disorders" OR DE "Eating Disorders" OR DE "Elective
Mutism" OR DE "Factitious Disorders" OR DE "Gender Identity
Disorder" OR DE "Hysteria" OR DE "Impulse Control
Disorders" OR DE "Koro" OR DE "Mental Disorders due to
General Medical Conditions" OR DE "Neurosis" OR DE
"Paraphilias" OR DE "Personality Disorders" OR DE
"Pervasive Developmental Disorders" OR DE "Pseudodementia"
OR DE "Psychosis" OR DE "Schizoaffective Disorder" OR DE
"Bipolar Disorder" OR DE "Major Depression" OR DE "Mania"
OR DE "Seasonal Affective Disorder" OR DE "Acute Stress Disorder"
OR DE "Castration Anxiety" OR DE "Death Anxiety" OR DE
"Generalized Anxiety Disorder" OR DE "Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder" OR DE "Panic Disorder" OR DE "Phobias" OR DE
"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" OR DE "Separation Anxiety"
OR DE "Chronic Psychosis" OR DE "AIDS Dementia Complex" OR
DE "Dementia with Lewy Bodies" OR DE "Presenile Dementia"
OR DE "Semantic Dementia" OR DE "Senile Dementia" OR DE
"Vascular Dementia" OR DE "Dissociative Disorders" OR DE
"Depersonalization" OR DE "Dissociative Identity Disorder"
OR DE "Fugue Reaction" OR DE "Eating Disorders" OR DE
"Anorexia Nervosa" OR DE "Binge Eating Disorder" OR DE
"Bulimia" OR DE "Hyperphagia" OR DE "Kleine Levin
Syndrome" OR DE "Pica" OR DE "Purging (Eating
Disorders)" OR DE "Munchausen Syndrome" OR DE
"Transsexualism" OR DE "Mass Hysteria" OR DE
"Explosive Disorder" OR DE "Childhood Neurosis" OR DE
"Experimental Neurosis" OR DE "Occupational Neurosis" OR DE
"Traumatic Neurosis" OR DE "Apotemnophilia" OR DE
"Exhibitionism" OR DE "Fetishism" OR DE "Incest"
OR DE "Pedophilia" OR DE "Sexual Masochism" OR DE
"Sexual Sadism" OR DE "Transvestism" OR DE
"Voyeurism" OR DE "Antisocial Personality Disorder" OR DE
"Avoidant Personality Disorder" OR DE "Borderline Personality
Disorder" OR DE "Dependent Personality Disorder" OR DE
"Histrionic Personality Disorder" OR DE "Narcissistic
Personality Disorder" OR DE "Obsessive Compulsive Personality
Disorder" OR DE "Paranoid Personality Disorder" OR DE
"Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder" OR DE "Sadomasochistic
Personality" OR DE "Schizoid Personality Disorder" OR DE
"Schizotypal Personality Disorder" OR DE "Aspergers
Syndrome" OR DE "Autism" OR DE "Rett Syndrome" OR DE
"Acute Psychosis" OR DE "Affective Psychosis" OR DE
"Alcoholic Psychosis" OR DE "Capgras Syndrome" OR DE
"Childhood Psychosis" OR DE "Chronic Psychosis" OR DE
"Experimental Psychosis" OR DE "Hallucinosis" OR DE
"Paranoia (Psychosis)" OR DE "Postpartum Psychosis" OR DE
"Reactive Psychosis" OR DE "Schizophrenia" OR DE
"Senile Psychosis" OR DE "Toxic Psychoses" OR DE
"Cyclothymic Personality" OR DE "Anaclitic Depression" OR
DE "Dysthymic Disorder" OR DE "Endogenous Depression" OR DE
"Postpartum Depression" OR DE "Reactive Depression" OR DE
"Recurrent Depression" OR DE "Treatment Resistant
Depression" OR DE "Hypomania" OR DE "Acrophobia" OR DE
"Agoraphobia" OR DE "Claustrophobia" OR DE
"Ophidiophobia" OR DE "School Phobia" OR DE "Social
Phobia" OR DE "Alzheimer's Disease" OR DE "Creutzfeldt
Jakob Syndrome" OR DE "Picks Disease" OR DE "Senile
Psychosis" OR DE "Masochistic Personality" OR DE "Acute
Schizophrenia" OR DE "Alcoholic Hallucinosis" OR DE
"Childhood Schizophrenia" OR DE "Symbiotic Infantile
Psychosis" OR DE "Paranoia (Psychosis)" OR DE "Folie A
Deux" OR DE "Catatonic Schizophrenia" OR DE "Paranoid Schizophrenia"
OR DE "Process Schizophrenia" OR DE "Schizophrenia (Disorganized
Type)" OR DE "Schizophreniform Disorder" OR DE
"Undifferentiated Schizophrenia" OR DE "Delirium Tremens"
OR DE "Korsakoffs Psychosis" OR DE "Wernicke's Syndrome"
Use at your own risk.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Monday, June 9, 2014
Advance Directives
"Decision Making"[Mesh] OR "Advance Care Planning"[Mesh] OR Advance Directive Adherence"[Mesh] OR "Third Party Consent"[Mesh]
End stage dementia
"Dementia"[Mesh]
AND
"end stage"[tiab] OR "late stage"[tiab] OR "later stage"[tiab] OR "late stages"[tiab] OR "later stages"[tiab]
AND
"end stage"[tiab] OR "late stage"[tiab] OR "later stage"[tiab] OR "late stages"[tiab] OR "later stages"[tiab]
Friday, May 23, 2014
Mental Capacity
For some reason, it's really hard to remember this one. I've done searches with this term probably about once a year and every time I remember that there's a term for this but it takes me forever to figure out what it is.
Most doctors ask for information about mental capacity or the capacity to make health decisions. But the MeSH term is:
Mental Competency
Most doctors ask for information about mental capacity or the capacity to make health decisions. But the MeSH term is:
Mental Competency
Friday, May 9, 2014
In the occupational setting
Mix and match from the following:
"Occupational Diseases"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Injuries"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Exposure"[Mesh]
"Noise, Occupational"[Mesh] OR "Accidents, Occupational"[Mesh]
"Occupational Health Physicians"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Health"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Health Services"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Health Nursing"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Medicine"[Mesh]
"Worker's Compensation"[Mesh] OR "Rehabilitation, Vocational"[Mesh] OR "Return to Work"[Mesh]
"Occupational Groups"[Mesh] OR "Occupations"[Mesh] OR "Industry"[Mesh]
"Occupational Diseases"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Injuries"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Exposure"[Mesh]
"Noise, Occupational"[Mesh] OR "Accidents, Occupational"[Mesh]
"Occupational Health Physicians"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Health"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Health Services"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Health Nursing"[Mesh] OR "Occupational Medicine"[Mesh]
"Worker's Compensation"[Mesh] OR "Rehabilitation, Vocational"[Mesh] OR "Return to Work"[Mesh]
"Occupational Groups"[Mesh] OR "Occupations"[Mesh] OR "Industry"[Mesh]
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Differential Diagnosis
PubMed:
"Differential Diagnosis"[Mesh] OR mimic*[tiab] OR masquerad*[tiab]
Ovid Medline:
exp Differential Diagnosis/ OR mimic*.mp. OR masquerad*.mp.
EBSCO Medline:
MH "Differential Diagnosis+" OR mimic* OR masquerad*
"Differential Diagnosis"[Mesh] OR mimic*[tiab] OR masquerad*[tiab]
Ovid Medline:
exp Differential Diagnosis/ OR mimic*.mp. OR masquerad*.mp.
EBSCO Medline:
MH "Differential Diagnosis+" OR mimic* OR masquerad*
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Why we should not be using acronyms
I received a request by phone a while ago. Someone wanted some books on ACL. He seemed quite concerned that we might not have anything on the topic. I breezily assured him that we did indeed, but he still sounded unsure. After several exchanges, I told him, "yes, we often get questions about that ligament."
He said, "ligament?"
Turns out, he was not interested in the anterior cruciate ligament, but in acute cardiac life-support.
We all operate within our daily silos, familiar with the jargon that we've learned in our training. I once took a split biology/computer science class about bioinformatics. One of the lecture slides referred to a number in units of kb. Since it was a strand of DNA, the computer science student next to me leaned over and asked, "is that kilobytes?" I thought about it, and whispered back, "no, I think it's kilobases."
The correct way to use acronyms, as seen in most article abstracts, is to write out a term in full the first time, followed by the acronym in parentheses, and then use the acronym from then on. This utilises all of the efficiency of an acronym without causing the confusion. However, literature searches often come in with only acronyms, no definitions.
Arrgh!
Here is a conversation which occurred between me and two colleagues yesterday:
C1: So, I was listening to a really interesting podcast on MDNA yesterday.
Me: You mean mRNA?
C1: No, I think it was MDNA. You know, ecstasy.
Me: Oh! Yeah - is it MMDA?
C2: NMDA.
Me: Oh, yeah.
The actual acronym is MDMA!
OF course, now all I can remember from that conversation was the confusion over the acronym - I can't remember any of the salient points, for instance, what disease they were trying to treat with the stuff.
If you have an emergency, you go to the ER. Unless you work there, in which case you go to the ED. Unless you're in Britain, then you go to A&E.
We received a question about EHT the other day. My colleague guessed either Empathy for Happiness Task, Egg Hatch Test, or Endothelial-to-Hematopoietic Transition. But it turned out the requestor had meant Eicosanoyl-5-Hydroxytryptamide.
And lastly, there are two phrases which should just never be used as an acronym. Seriously. They are: Follow Up and Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis. I mean, come on. Just don't.
He said, "ligament?"
Turns out, he was not interested in the anterior cruciate ligament, but in acute cardiac life-support.
We all operate within our daily silos, familiar with the jargon that we've learned in our training. I once took a split biology/computer science class about bioinformatics. One of the lecture slides referred to a number in units of kb. Since it was a strand of DNA, the computer science student next to me leaned over and asked, "is that kilobytes?" I thought about it, and whispered back, "no, I think it's kilobases."
The correct way to use acronyms, as seen in most article abstracts, is to write out a term in full the first time, followed by the acronym in parentheses, and then use the acronym from then on. This utilises all of the efficiency of an acronym without causing the confusion. However, literature searches often come in with only acronyms, no definitions.
Arrgh!
Here is a conversation which occurred between me and two colleagues yesterday:
C1: So, I was listening to a really interesting podcast on MDNA yesterday.
Me: You mean mRNA?
C1: No, I think it was MDNA. You know, ecstasy.
Me: Oh! Yeah - is it MMDA?
C2: NMDA.
Me: Oh, yeah.
The actual acronym is MDMA!
OF course, now all I can remember from that conversation was the confusion over the acronym - I can't remember any of the salient points, for instance, what disease they were trying to treat with the stuff.
If you have an emergency, you go to the ER. Unless you work there, in which case you go to the ED. Unless you're in Britain, then you go to A&E.
- But, if you're talking about ER outcomes, is it Emergency Room or Enhanced Recovery?
- And ED can stand for Emergency Department or Erectile Dysfunction.
- A&E does also stand for Arts & Entertainment as well as Accident & Emergency, but I'm guessing those ones can be distinguished by context.
- if the patient has SAD, is it Seasonal Affective Disorder or Social Anxiety Disorder?
- if the patient has MS, do they have Multiple Sclerosis, Mitral Stenosis, Myasthenic Syndrome, or Metabolic Syndrome? (Yes, I have seen MS for metabolic syndrome, although MetS is more prevalent.) It also stands for Morphine Sulphate, Magnesium Sulphate, Medical Student, Medical Staff, Medication Safety, and Mental Status. Not to mention the non-medical meanings such as Microsoft, Mississippi, millisecond, and manuscript.
- if the patient has OCD, is it Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or Osteochondritis Dissecans?
- does VTE stand for Venous Thromboembolism or Vitamin E?
- does tPA stand for Tissue Plasminogen Activator or Tissue Polypeptide Antigen?
- does ACE stand for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme, Acute Care for the Elderly, or Acute Concussion Evaluation?
- does MVA stand for motor vehicle accident, malignant ventricular arrhythmia, mechanical ventricular assistance, mevalonic acid, microvillous atrophy, mitral valve annuloplasty, or mitral valve area?
- does NHP stand for Nottingham Health Profile or Non-Human Primate?
- does RDA stand for Resource Description and Access, or Recommended Dietary Allowance?
- does ALS stand for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or alternate/alternative light source?
- does BP stand for Blood Pressure or Bisphosphonates?
- PSA stands for Prostate Specific Antigen, but PsA stands for Psoriatic Arthritis.
- does AED stand for antiepileptic drugs or automated external defibrillator? Getting that wrong could be quite a shock(!)
We received a question about EHT the other day. My colleague guessed either Empathy for Happiness Task, Egg Hatch Test, or Endothelial-to-Hematopoietic Transition. But it turned out the requestor had meant Eicosanoyl-5-Hydroxytryptamide.
And lastly, there are two phrases which should just never be used as an acronym. Seriously. They are: Follow Up and Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis. I mean, come on. Just don't.
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