Which search concepts will probably be represented by subject headings?
Concepts represented by subject headings are "stand-alone" concepts. Heading concepts are things like:
- names of diseases or
names of categories of diseases,
- names of drugs/therapies
or names of categories of drugs/therapies
- names of organs or body
parts or "wounds and injuries" of named body parts
- names of agents responsible
for communicable diseases, names of organisms, or names of animals
- names of infections (Infections
caused by a communicable agent and the communicable agent itself are represented by separate headings)
- names of procedures or
tests or the names of categories of procedures or tests,
- names of specialties
or professions,
- names of specific study
designs,
- names of types of programs,
Which of your concepts
or portions of your concepts are likely to be headings? Mark these concepts as headings.
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