title: Terminology for the description of the diagnostic studies in the field of EBM.
abstract: 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.
authors: CNRS STL UMR 8163, Université Lille 3, rue Barreau, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
authors: Natalia
authors: N
authors: Grabar
authors: Ludovic
authors: L
authors: Trinquart
authors: Isabelle
authors: I
authors: Colombet
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D000465:Algorithms; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000379:methods; D039781:PubMed; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D009626:Terminology as Topic