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Use of ‘Pharmaceutical services’ Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in articles assessing pharmacists' interventions

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dc.contributor.authorTonin, Fernanda
dc.contributor.authorGmünder, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorBonetti, Aline F.
dc.contributor.authorMendes, Antonio M.
dc.contributor.authorFernandez-Llimos, Fernando
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-24T13:56:24Z
dc.date.available2022-08-24T13:56:24Z
dc.date.issued2022-09
dc.description.abstractBackground: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus contribute towards efficient searching of biomedical information. However, insufficient coverage of specific fields and inaccuracies in the indexing of articles can lead to bias during literature retrieval. Objectives: This meta-research study aimed to assess the use of ‘Pharmaceutical Services’ MeSH terms in studies evaluating the effect of pharmacists' interventions. Methods: An updated systematic search (Jan-2022) to gather meta-analyses comparing pharmacists' interventions vs. other forms of care was performed. All MeSH terms allocated to the MEDLINE record of each primary study included in the selected meta-analyses were systematically extracted. Terms from the ‘Pharmaceutical Services’ branch, including its descendants, as well as other 26 pharmacy-specific MeSH terms, were identified. The assignment of these terms as a ‘Major MeSH’ was also evaluated. Descriptive statistics and social network analyses to evaluate the co-occurrence of the MeSH terms in the articles were conducted. Sensitivity analyses including only meta-analyses with declared objectives mentioning the words ‘pharmacist’ or ‘pharmacy’ were performed (SPSS v.24.0). Results: Overall, 138 meta-analyses including 2012 primary articles were evaluated. A median of 15 [IQR 12–18] MeSH terms were assigned per article with a slight positive time-trend (Spearman rho = 0.193; p < 0.001). Only 36.6% (n = 736/2012) and 58.1% (n = 338/1099) of studies were indexed with one MeSH term from the ‘Pharmaceutical Services’ branch in the overall and sensitivity analyses, respectively. In <20% of cases, these terms were a ‘Major MeSH’. The pharmacy-specific term ‘Pharmacists’ was the most frequently used, yet in only 27.8% and 47.7% of articles in the original and sensitivity analyses, respectively. Social networks showed a weak association between pharmacy-specific and ‘Pharmaceutical services’ branch MeSH terms. Conclusions: The availability of a ‘Pharmaceutical services’ branch hierarchic tree and further pharmacy-specific MeSH terms incorporated into the MeSH thesaurus in the past years is not related to the accurate indexing of articles.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationTonin FS, Gmünder V, Bonetti AF, Mendes AM, Fernandez-Llimos F. Use of ‘Pharmaceutical services’ Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in articles assessing pharmacists’ interventions. Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm. 2022;7:100172.pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.rcsop.2022.100172pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/14938
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667276622000713pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectPharmaceutical servicespt_PT
dc.subjectPharmacistspt_PT
dc.subjectMedical subject headingspt_PT
dc.subjectBibliometricspt_PT
dc.subjectPeriodicals as topicpt_PT
dc.subjectMEDLINEpt_PT
dc.titleUse of ‘Pharmaceutical services’ Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in articles assessing pharmacists' interventionspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.startPage100172pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleExploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume7pt_PT
person.familyNameTonin
person.givenNameFernanda
person.identifier.ciencia-idD01C-C700-9411
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-4262-8608
person.identifier.ridO-2050-2017
person.identifier.scopus-author-id56085115800
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