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Controlled Vocabularies:

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) Browser http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html

Online vocabulary look-up for MeSH terms including scope notes and hierarchy of descriptors. MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) controlled vocabulary, used to index articles from 4,600 biomedical journals for the MEDLINE database and other NLM-produced databases

MedDRA (Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities) http://www.meddramsso.com/NewWeb2003/index.htm

General information, including subscription rates, for MedDRA, the global standard medical terminology used by regulatory authorities. MedDRA is used in FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS).

NLM's Unified Medical Language System Knowledge Source Server (UMLSKS)

Fact sheet: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umlskss.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

The UMLS Metathesaurus® is a set of web based tools accessing biomedical terminologies. Thesaurus terms are from many controlled vocabularies and classifications used in administrative health data, bibliographic and full-text databases, patient records, and expert systems. Use is restricted to registered users. Registration is free. See details at site.

ICD-9-CM. http://www.eicd.com/EICDMain.htm

SNOMED-CT Browser. http://snomed.vetmed.vt.edu/sct/menu.cfm

Medical Entities Dictionary. http://med.dmi.columbia.edu/browser.htm

LOINC and RELMA Downloads. http://www.loinc.org/

Information about Database Indexing:

http://www.anzsi.org/site/bib_types.asp#database

ANZSI Database indexing links

http://indexpup.com/index-list/1994/22_November_1994.txt

Index-L thread from 1995 that discusses database indexing

http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~ssoy/organizing/l391d2b.htm

List of references about database indexing

http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/SHRAB/mandell/index.htm

Indexing Public Databases: PowerPoint presentation by Lee Mandell, 1998

http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/lisa3/dubind.html