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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
AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2005; 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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