Thanks for the contributions on the above topic. Interestingly the e-mail found it's way to the NLM who supplied the following:
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MEDLINE indexers apply the MeSH term Evidence-Based Medicine when an article is about the field and subject of evidence based medicine itself, such as articles titled "Appraisal of tools to enhance evidence-based clinical practice" or "Teaching and evaluating first and second year medical students' practice of evidence-based medicine". The MeSH term is not routinely applied when the article provides the "evidence" in relation to a certain disease treatment or medical procedure or the like. For example, Evidence-Based Medicine is not applied to the citations to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, or to the citations to the journal Clinical Evidence.
Keep in mind that some articles of the kind that present the "evidence" in relation to a disease also include a substantive discussion of the value or processes of the field of evidence based medicine, in which case the indexer would apply the MeSH term Evidence-Based Medicine, but usually not as a MeSH Major Topic. (Major MeSH Topics indicate the main topics discussed in the article and are denoted by an asterisk on the MeSH term or MeSH/Subheading combination, and are retrieved in PubMed with the tag [MAJR].)
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Interesting stuff!
Best wishes
jon
Jon Brassey
TRIP Database
www.tripdatabase.com
Jon
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