Data element name | Sub data element name | Value |
Code System Owner | Name | National Library of Medicine |
| Website | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ | |
| Email address | https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/ | |
| Phone number | ||
| Address | 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 | |
| Code System Maintainer (Steward) | Name | National Library of Medicine |
| Website | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ | |
| Email address | https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/ | |
| Phone number | ||
| Address | 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 | |
| Code System Publisher | Name | National Library of Medicine |
| Website | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ | |
| Email address | https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/ | |
| Phone number | ||
| Address | 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 | |
| Code System Names | Formal name of the code system | Medical Subject Headings |
| Short name of the code system | MeSH | |
| Code System Technical Identifiers | HTA-endorsed URI | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| HTA-endorsed OID | 2.16.840.1.113883.6.177 | |
| Other URIs | ||
| Other OIDs | ||
| Code System Information | Link | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html |
| Notes | "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 here https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/mesh.html MeSH can be browsed here | |
| Arrangement or agreements with HL7 for use of content | None | |
| Version management | Suggestions for changes to MeSH can be made here https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshsugg.html MeSH is released annually and denoted using the YYYY format. | |
| Code System Copyright, Intellectual Property and Licensing | Copyright Statement | "Attribution and Rights for Government Works: Works produced by the U.S. government are not subject to copyright protection in the United States. Any such works found on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Web sites may be freely used or reproduced without permission in the U.S. Please acknowledge NLM as the source of the information by including the phrase “Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine” or “Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine.” Copyright Protections for Non-Government Works: When using NLM Web sites, you may encounter documents, illustrations, photographs, or other content contributed by or licensed from private individuals, companies, or organizations that may be protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. You can sometimes tell if content is copyrighted if it has the copyright symbol, the name of the copyright holder, or the statement "All rights reserved." However, a copyright notice is not required by law and therefore not all copyrighted content is necessarily marked in this way. Transmission or reproduction of copyrighted items (beyond that allowed by fair use as defined in the U.S. copyright laws) requires the written permission of the copyright holders." |
| Copyright Information | NLM's complete copyright Statement can be found here https://www.nlm.nih.gov/copyright.html | |
| Intellectual Property Information | ||
| Licensing Information | ||
| HTA endorsement status | Value | Approved for Production Use |
| Assignment date | 20210511 | |
| HTA review status | Last review date | 20210629 |
| Next review date | ||
| Information current as at (date) | 20210629 |
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3 Comments
Yunwei Wang
Should the URI be "https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh" (without the ending / character)?
Caroline Macumber
Agreed. That ending character is superfluous. Jessica Bota, please make sure the THO entry matches
Jessica Bota
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