Subject Terms for Indexed Journals Updated

S ubject Terms are broad Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) that describe the overall coverage of an indexed journal. These terms, which are searchable in the Journals database, have recently been updated as follows:

Changes:
General Surgery	[was Surgery, prior to 2009 MeSH]
Primary Health Care	[was Family Practice]
Pulmonary Medicine	[was Pulmonary Disease (Specialty), prior to 2009 MeSH]
Statistics as Topic	[was Statistics, prior to 2008 MeSH]
Technology	[was Technology, Medical]
Additions:
Disaster Medicine
Nanotechnology

Other edits to adjust various "includes," "see," and "see also" notes were also made.

Subject Terms for Indexed Journals Updated. NLM Tech Bull. 2009 Mar-Apr;(367):e1.