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: Medical Subject Headings - JSON Representation

Active as of 2021-06-29

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{
  "resourceType" : "CodeSystem",
  "id" : "MeSH",
  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p class=\"res-header-id\"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem MeSH</b></p><a name=\"MeSH\"> </a><a name=\"hcMeSH\"> </a><a name=\"MeSH-en-US\"> </a><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh</code> defines codes, but no codes are represented here</p></div>"
  },
  "url" : "https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh",
  "identifier" : [
    {
      "system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
      "value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.177"
    },
    {
      "use" : "official",
      "type" : {
        "coding" : [
          {
            "system" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/namingsystem-identifier-type",
            "code" : "iri-stem"
          }
        ]
      },
      "system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3987",
      "value" : "http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/",
      "assigner" : {
        "display" : "MeSH as per https://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/versioning-policy as retrieved on 2024-Jan-24"
      }
    }
  ],
  "version" : "3.0.1",
  "name" : "MeSH",
  "title" : "Medical Subject Headings",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00",
  "publisher" : "National Library of Medicine",
  "contact" : [
    {
      "name" : "National Library of Medicine; 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894",
      "telecom" : [
        {
          "system" : "email",
          "value" : "https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/"
        },
        {
          "system" : "url",
          "value" : "https://www.nlm.nih.gov/"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description" : "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.\r\n\r\nMeSH can be downloaded from https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/mesh.html\r\n\r\nMeSH can be browsed here: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search",
  "caseSensitive" : true,
  "content" : "not-present"
}