HL7 Terminology (THO)
4.0.0 - Publication
HL7 Terminology (THO)
4.0.0 - Publication
This page is part of the HL7 Terminology (v4.0.0: 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 
| Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/MeSH | Version: | |||
| Active as of 2021-06-29 | Responsible: National Library of Medicine | Computable Name: MeSH | ||
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
| 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 | 2021-06-29 12:00:00-0400 --> (ongoing) | Official canonical URL going forward. |
| URI | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/MSH | false | (?) --> 2021-06-29 12:00:00-0400 | Maintained for backward compatibility. |
History
| Date | Action | Custodian | Author | Comment |
| 2021-10-21 | revise | HTA | Jessica Bota | Update MeSH per HTA; UP-218 |
| 2020-10-09 | revise | Vocabulary WG | Reuben Daniels | Fixed title extension URL to be consistent with latest Publisher |
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