MeSH
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text:
  status:
    v: generated
  div: Generated Narrative: NamingSystem MeSH Summary Defining URL http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/MeSH Version 3.0.0 Name MeSH Title Medical Subject Headings Status active Definition The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled and hierarchically-organized vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine. It is used for indexing, cataloging, and searching of biomedical and health-related information. MeSH includes the subject headings appearing in MEDLINE/PubMed, the NLM Catalog, and other NLM databases. MeSH can be downloaded from https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/mesh.html MeSH can be browsed here: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search Publisher National Library of Medicine Identifiers Type Value Preferred Period Comment OID 2.16.840.1.113883.6.177 true URI https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh true 2021-06-29 00:00:00-0400 --> (ongoing) Official canonical URL going forward. URI http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/MSH false (?) --> 2021-06-29 00:00:00-0400 Maintained for backward compatibility. IRI stem http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/ false MeSH as per https://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/versioning-policy as retrieved on 2024-Jan-24
url:
  v: http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/MeSH
version:
  v: 3.0.0
name:
  v: MeSH
title:
  v: Medical Subject Headings
status:
  v: active
kind:
  v: codesystem
date:
  v: 2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00
publisher:
  v: National Library of Medicine
contact:
  name:
    v: National Library of Medicine; 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
  telecom:
    system:
      v: email
    value:
      v: https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/
  telecom:
    system:
      v: url
    value:
      v: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/
description:
  v: The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled and hierarchically-organized vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine. It is used for indexing, cataloging, and searching of biomedical and health-related information. MeSH includes the subject headings appearing in MEDLINE/PubMed, the NLM Catalog, and other NLM databases. MeSH can be downloaded from https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/mesh.html MeSH can be browsed here: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search
unique id:
  type:
    v: oid
  value:
    v: 2.16.840.1.113883.6.177
  preferred:
    v: true
unique id:
  type:
    v: uri
  value:
    v: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
  preferred:
    v: true
  comment:
    v: Official canonical URL going forward.
  period:
    start:
      v: 2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00
unique id:
  type:
    v: uri
  value:
    v: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/MSH
  preferred:
    v: false
  comment:
    v: Maintained for backward compatibility.
  period:
    end:
      v: 2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00
unique id:
  type:
    v: iri-stem
  value:
    v: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
  preferred:
    v: false
  comment:
    v: MeSH as per https://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/versioning-policy as retrieved on 2024-Jan-24
  authoritative:
    v: true