HL7 Terminology (THO)
3.0.0 - Publication
This page is part of the HL7 Terminology (v3.0.0: Release) based on FHIR R4. The current version which supercedes this version is 5.2.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
Defining URL | http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/MeSH |
Name | MeSH |
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 |
Type | Value | Preferred | Period | Comment |
OID | 2.16.840.1.113883.6.177 | true | ||
URI | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh | true | 2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00 --> (ongoing) | Official canonical URL going forward. |
URI | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/MSH | false | (?) --> 2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00 | Maintained for backward compatibility. |