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Retrieving articles on "diagnosis"
from MEDLINE
When you do a MEDLINE search for articles that
deal with diagnosing a disease, the simplest methods is to search for the best
subject heading that matches the disease name, and assign the subheading diagnosis.
Example:
Diabetes mellitus/di
Myocardial infarction/di
(You would click on
Preview/Index, select MeSH terms from the dropdown, type in diabetes mellitus
in the search box, and then click on Index. From the results, you'd choose diabetes
mellitus/diagnosis, and click on AND. There are 19553 citations. In common disease
conditions like the above, you'd retrieve a huge number of articles).
One
way to cut down the number is to restrict your retrieval to MeSH Major terms.
Repeat the process above, but in the search option, choose MeSH Major Topic. This
time you get 10069 citations. These will include references where any diagnosis
related aspects are discussed - whether they are related to detection of the disease,
tests, or detection of components after the disease has struck.
Examples
are:
1. On the evidence. Type 2 diabetes.
2. Cystic fibrosis related diabetes
3. Diabetic neuropathy: diagnosis and treatment for the pain management specialist
If you wish to be more specific and retrieve articles that only talk of
detecting the disease with the help of laboratory or radiological tests, then
what you need to do is to use the strategy: Diabetes Mellitus/di [MeSH Terms]
AND "sensitivity and specificity"[MeSH Terms] The MeSH term "sensitivity and specificity"
is assigned to any article that deals with this issue of diagnostic tests.
And
now - for some examples of retrieved results:
1. Evaluation of a simple, random
urine test for prospective analysis of proteinuria in Type 2 diabetes: a six year
follow-up study
2. Use of GHb (HbA1c) in screening for undiagnosed diabetes
in the U.S. population
Decide on which aspect of diagnosis you need references
for, and perform your search.
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