Representation of Social Determinants of Health terminology in medical subject headings: impact of added terms.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To enhance and evaluate the quality of PubMed search results for Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) through the addition of new SDoH terms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).

Materials and methods

High priority SDoH terms and definitions were collated from authoritative sources, curated based on publication frequencies, and refined by subject matter experts. Descriptive analyses were used to investigate how PubMed search details and best match results were affected by the addition of SDoH concepts to MeSH. Three information retrieval metrics (Precision, Recall, and F measure) were used to quantitatively assess the accuracy of PubMed search results. Pre- and post-update documents were clustered into topic areas using a Natural Language Processing pipeline, and SD

SUBMITTER: Suda-King C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11491601 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature