WCU FAQs: Research Help

"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" (National Library of Medicine, 2020, para. 1).

For an introduction on using MeSH terms and subject headings, view the tutorials at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/introduction.html. 

National Library of Medicine. (2020, July 23). Medical subject headings. National Institutes of Health. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html