CISMeF
Catalogue and Index of French Language
Health Resources
http://www.cismef.org/
[email protected]
Medical Library, Rouen University Hospital, France
St Petersburg, 2009 June
The project was initiated in 1995 with the aim of
describing and indexing quality medical and health care
sites and documents published in French.
French Three major
components:
•Evidence-based medicine
•Educational resources for students
•Patient information
•And also Web sites from hospital, associations …
• The Team : 4 librarians, 2 engineers, 1 Professor of Informatics
(PhD) 4 informatics
(PhD),
i f
i PhD students
d
(
(one
post-doc
d at the
h NLM ffor 2
years)
• Financing: 50% by the Rouen UHC
UHC, 50% from contracts with the
public or private sector
• Publications: 70,
70 of which 32 appear in PubMed
• Usage: 30,000 unique users / per weekday
• 5th
5 h most visited
i i d webb site
i in
i France
F
for
f Health
H l h resources; the
h first
fi
belonging to an institution
• 67,000
67 000 records in May 2009
• 50 added per week
Inclusion policy
• Only Web sites from and full text documents published by
institutions (Government agencies,
agencies Ministries,
Ministries Scientific
societies) are indexed
• No commercial sites
• No personal web sites, except very high quality ones
Update and discovery system: 900 pages and RSS
monitored
• Manual and/or automatic (in-house software): daily
daily,
weekly, or monthly updates, according to the sites own
updating periods
•In addition: media/news, discussion lists, submission of
new sites to CISMeF
Priority levels for CISMeF inclusion and indexing
• N1 = Guidelines & Evaluation Studies = manual indexing = high
priority
i it
• N2 = other documents (Technical Reports, free full text Journal
Articles Educational resources) = automatic indexing
Articles,
indexing*,
subsequently checked manually
• N3 = other documents considered less « sensitive » (Health
Policy…) = automatic indexing, no follow-up check
p
on title words (a
( subtitle is added if
*MeSH automatic indexingg is performed
necessary to improve meaning) based on a bag of words
Access to information
• Simple search
• Advanced
Ad
d and
d bboolean
l
searchh
• Thesaurus
• Search by components (guidelines, courses, consumer)
Terminology
gy tool
• MeSH terms, Subheadings, Pharmacological action &
Supplementary Concepts (english only, 2% yet
translated) + 8000 synonyms from CISMeF
• Resource Types = 289
• Metaterms = 109 (medical specialties)
• Search strategies
g = 210
• Links to PubMed
From PubMed
From PubMed MeSH database
From CISMeF
From CISMeF
CISMeF to
 Simple Search: PubMed, Intute, Entrez, NLM
Gateway,
y, Google
g co-opp CISMeF
 For Patients : PubMed, MEDLINEPlus
 For EMB : NGC,
NGC NHS,
NHS CMA Infobase
 For Students : PubMed
Standards applied
• Dublin Core Metadata [author, title, abstract, format, language,
publisher, publication date, modified date, subject (F-MeSH),
resource type (= text),
text) URL
• CISMeF Metadata: level of evidence (EBM), city, department,
country resource type,
country,
type date the site was accessed
• LOM.Fr (Learning Object Metadata) for educational resources
Oth uses off CISM
Other
CISMeF
FM
Metaterms
t t
• Aggregation of RSS feeds coming from French medical
sites and classified by specialties
• Organization of Patient Medical Records allowing their
searchh by
b specialties
i lti
Th Near
The
N F
Future
t
•2 additional components: drugs and medical devices
•Multi-terminology server: F-MeSH, SNOMED CT
(Clinical Terms), CCAM (French Healthcare Procedure
C di System,
Coding
S t
CIF (F
(French
h International
I t
ti l Classification
Cl ifi ti
of Functioning, Disability and Health), CISP (French
International Classication for Primary Care)
•Management of patient records with the help of
metaterms
Time oriented view
Specialty view
Patient
C
Contact
Procedure
Th Near
The
N F
Future
t
ICD10 codes
•2 additional components: drugs and medical devices
•Multi-terminology server: F-MeSH, SNOMED CT
(Clinical Terms), CCAM (French Healthcare CCAM
Procedure
C di System,
Coding
S t
CIF (F
(French
h International
I t
ti l Classification
Cl ifi ti
of Functioning, Disability and Health), CISP ADICAP
(French
International Classication for Primary Care)
CCAM and Diagnostc Imaging
•Management of patient records with the help of
CCAM or service point
metaterms
F t
Future
Projects
P j t
Multi-terminology server:
F-MeSH
CCAM (French Healthcare Procedure Coding System)
CIF (French International Classification of Functioning
Disability and Health)
 CISP (French International Classification for Primary
Care)
SNOMED CT (Clinical Terms)