Saranto Kaija, Tallberg Marianne
Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland.
Int J Med Inform. 2003 Jul;70(2-3):249-53. doi: 10.1016/s1386-5056(03)00053-4.
Evidence-based practice requires flexible systems for information retrieval. Search processes in electronic databases must be based on terms, which are familiar to professionals and describe accurately the problem to be solved. The paper describes the process of evolving a controlled nursing vocabulary for indexing and information retrieval purposes. The vocabulary is based on terms of the Medline thesaurus the medical subject headings (MeSH) by National Library of Medicine and the International Classification for Nursing Practice by the International Council of Nurses. The created vocabulary consists of 10 themes central to nursing domain. The content was compiled using Delphi technique. The expert panel had four rounds and at the first stage the vocabulary consists of 558 terms. The validity of the vocabulary has been tested for indexing nursing research and based on the validation the expert panel has made some changes for the hierarchy and content. The vocabulary will be added as an independent theme to the Finnish thesaurus the FinMeSH.
循证实践需要灵活的信息检索系统。电子数据库中的检索过程必须基于专业人员熟悉且能准确描述待解决问题的术语。本文描述了为索引和信息检索目的而开发一种受控护理词汇表的过程。该词汇表基于美国国立医学图书馆的医学主题词表（MeSH）中的术语以及国际护士理事会的国际护理实践分类。创建的词汇表由护理领域的10个核心主题组成。内容是使用德尔菲技术汇编而成的。专家小组进行了四轮讨论，在第一阶段词汇表由558个术语组成。该词汇表的有效性已针对护理研究索引进行了测试，基于验证结果，专家小组对层次结构和内容进行了一些修改。该词汇表将作为一个独立主题添加到芬兰词表FinMeSH中。
