title: [DeCS terminology and the new rules on orthography of Portuguese language: guidelines for an update].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To indicate orthographic changes to be used as a basic reference for professionals, researchers, doctors, teachers, students and users, which are directly linked and performing activities in health services in general, aimed at implementing the correct orthography in recovery and production of their scientific studies.
  
  
  METHODS
  For data collection, were shown some examples of terminology DeCS (Descriptors in Health Science) analyzed according to the current spelling and compared with the Orthographic Vocabulary of Portuguese Language (VOLP).
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was select and listed examples of key words and/or terms related to Health Sciences, which was compared to the respective rules of the Orthographic Agreement of Portuguese Language, and divided into three items: graphical accentuation, the non use of dieresis and exceptions and, the use of hyphen.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study show some guidelines for the orthographic alterations of the terms used by scientific community, according the new orthographic rules, contributing for the efficiency in the description of the documents and consequently in their recovery.
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestão e Informática em Saúde, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brasil. teresa.bc@epm.br
authors: Teresa Avalos
authors: TA
authors: Pereira
authors: Edna Frasson de Souza
authors: EF
authors: Montero
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D007803:Language Arts / Q000592:standards*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled