Sunday, September 22, 2013

Interesting Things in MeSH 2014

This one is for the medlibs and me, some interesting changes in MeSH for 2014:

  • The concept (and term for) TEN has been absorbed into Stevens-Johnson Syndrome – makes some sense given the “spectrum of disease” aspect.

  • Drug Toxicity has been replaced by Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions, which is much more tedious to type from memory.

  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome has been replaced by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

  • Arachnidism has been changed to the much easier to remember Spider Bites. Tick Bites is new, too.

  • Hearing Impaired Persons has been changed to the more person-first Persons with Hearing Impairments.

  • Delusional Parasitosis has been added, but it’s been kept separate from (though in the same section as) Morgellons Disease.


Other selected new terms:

  • Human Trafficking

  • Slaves

  • Slavery

  • Prisoners of War

  • Organ Trafficking

  • Workplace Violence

  • Social Determinants of Health

  • Patient Harm

  • Preexisting Condition Coverage

  • Dandruff and Dander

  • Autografts

  • Hand Sanitizers, and Hand Transplantation

  • For nursing, we get Cardiovascular Nursing; Critical Care Nursing; Family Nurse Practitioners; Home Health Nursing; Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing; Nephrology Nursing; Nurses, Community Health; Nurses, International; Nurses, Public Health; Parish Nursing; Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; Rural Nursing

  • Visual Analog Scale

  • Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms

  • Medical Marijuana

  • And finally, Mobile Applications. :)


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