What is MeSH?
What is 'MeSH'? How do I find them?
Answer
MeSH refers to Medical Subject Headings. These subject headings are the controlled vocabulary (similar to Library of Congress Subject Headings) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and are used to give consistency to biomedical literature. Knowing how to find the Medical Subject Headings can help researchers perform more relevant searches in MEDLINE, PubMed, and CINAHL.
The link on this page is for an introductory tutorial on MeSH from the National Library of Medicine. This brief tutorial provides more detail on how the controlled vocabulary is structured.
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