Pekkala Eila, Saranto Kaija, Tallberg Marianne, Ensio Anneli, Junttila Kristiina
Finnish Nurses Association, Helsinki, Finland.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2006;122:981.
The lack of a nursing thesaurus in Finnish has emerged among nursing professionals searching nursing knowledge and librarians when indexing literature to databases. The Finnish Nursing Education Society launched a project focusing on the development of a nursing vocabulary and the compilation of a thesaurus. The content of a vocabulary was created by six experts using Delphi-technique. The validity of the vocabulary was twice tested for indexing nursing research and has afterwards been revised. The vocabulary can be used for indexing and information retrieval purposes. The main challenge is that nurses easily can find national as well as international nursing research from databases and enhance research utilization.
芬兰护理专业人员在搜索护理知识时以及图书馆员在为数据库索引文献时发现，芬兰缺乏护理主题词表。芬兰护理教育协会发起了一个项目，重点是开发护理词汇并编纂主题词表。词汇内容由六位专家采用德尔菲技术创建。该词汇的有效性经过两次测试，用于索引护理研究，之后进行了修订。该词汇可用于索引和信息检索目的。主要挑战在于护士能够轻松地从数据库中找到国内和国际护理研究，并提高研究利用率。
