Terminology for the description of the diagnostic studies in the field of EBM

Natalia Grabar (1) , Ludovic Trinquart (2) , Isabelle Colombet (3, 4)

1 STL - Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163
2 Cochrane France
3 AP-HP - Hôpital Cochin Broca Hôtel Dieu [Paris]
4 UPD5 Médecine - Université Paris Descartes - Faculté de Médecine

Diagnostic systematic reviews is a relatively new area within the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). Their indexing in Pubmed is not precise, which complicates their detection when a systematic review is to be realized. In order to provide an assistance in the selection of relevant studies, we propose to develop a terminology describing this area and the organization of its terms. The terminology is built with a bottom-up approach. It contains 255 terms organized into five hierarchical levels. Only a small proportion of these terms (13%) are already registered in MeSH. This terminology will be exploited in a dedicated web service as a main tool for the detection of relevant diagnostic studies.

Mots clés: Evidence-Based Medicine; Review; Systematic; Language; Natural Language Processing; Terminology

Domaines: Méthodes et statistiques; Ingénierie biomédicale; Sciences pharmaceutiques; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Médecine humaine et pathologie

Natalia Grabar, Ludovic Trinquart, Isabelle Colombet. Terminology for the description of the diagnostic studies in the field of EBM. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2011, User Centred Networked Health Care, 169, pp. 769 - 773. ⟨10.3233/978-1-60750-806-9-769⟩. ⟨hal-01393922⟩