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MeSH Speller + askMEDLINE: Auto-completes MeSH Terms Then Searches MEDLINE/PubMed via Free-text, Natural Language Queries
Fontelo P, Liu F, Ackerman MJ
Proc. AMIA 2005, American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, MD, pg. 957, 2005.
Medical terminology is challenging even for healthcare personnel. Spelling errors can make searching MEDLINE/PubMed ineffective. We developed a utility that provides MeSH term and Specialist Lexicon Vocabulary suggestions as it is typed on a search page. The correctly spelled term can be incorporated into a free-text, natural language search or used as a clinical queries search.
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