Abstract
HTA Database Canadian Repository
Highlights
The MeSH terminology search is helpful, if not ideal
Metadata vary in records from DARE, NHS EED, or HTA
The HTA Database has an ‘‘extremely flexible definition of what constitutes a health technology assessment,’’ which, potentially beneficial to a variety of users, does not provide a reliable description of publications included in the database [3]
Summary
The MeSH terminology search is helpful, if not ideal. MeSH terms can be searched by string (permut), stemming, or tree criteria, but combinations of terms cannot be selected for post-coordinated searching by index concept. J Med Lib Assoc 103(4) October 2015 Some metadata are unique to the database from which they derive.
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