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MEDLINE Guide

A guide to accessing and using MEDLINE through Ovid, ProQuest, and PubMed.

WHAT ARE MeSH TERMS?

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, consists of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.

In other words, MeSH terms describe what an article is about and are used to label all articles on a topic even if different authors use different words for the same concept (such as cancer vs. neoplasm vs. tumor).

MeSH Fact Sheet
From the U.S. National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health
MeSH Database via PubMed
The official MeSH database via PubMed, which you can use to search all available MeSH terms.

USING MeSH TERMS IN OVID MEDLINE

YouTube Video by the Wellington Medical + Health Sciences Library

USING MeSH TERMS IN PROQUEST MEDLINE

YouTube Video by Anton Angelo

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