MeSH On Demand

This article had previously been indexed for MEDLINE with the following MeSH terms: Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems/standards* Data Display Decision Support Systems, Clinical/standards* Group Processes Hospitals, Teaching Humans Medication Errors/statistics & numerical data* Medication Systems, Hospital* Questionnaires Risk Assessment User-Computer Interface MeSH on Demand meanwhile came up with the following after processing the article abstract:  Anti-Bacterial Agents  Focus Groups  Hospitals, Teaching  Humans  Internship and Residency  Male  Medical Errors  Medical Order Entry Systems  Medication Errors  Medication Systems, Hospital  Outcome Assessment (Health Care) The aboutness of medication errors comes through in both sets of MeSH terms, but on Demand introduces a personnel focus (particularly male?), possibly drawing from the described audience of who took the administered questionnaire, whereas the MEDLINE indexers focused on the relevancy of the questionnaire itself.  Anti-bacterial agents can be chalked up to the tool only having access to the abstract of the article, while indexers who have scanned the whole article know that while the word antibacterial appears in the abstract, the antibiotic renewal notices are just a small piece of a bigger information system discussion (hence, Decision Support Systems, Clinical/standards* and Decision Support Systems, Clinical/standards*). Users of MeSH on Demand aren’t limited to copying an...
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