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Table 2 Increase in non-indexed citation retrieved with the new method

From: Performance evaluation of unified medical language system®'s synonyms expansion to query PubMed

Query Term

q5

Non-indexed citation with q3

Increase in non-indexed citation retrieved

Neoplasms

46

1871

2.5%

Hypertension

23

10547

0.2%

Myocardial infarction

155

5298

2.9%

Coronary disease

41

5397

0.8%

Asthma

133

4149

3.2%

Obesity

379

7552

5.0%

Liver neoplasms

641

266

241.0%

Diabetes Mellitus

9876

5033

196.2%

Inflammation

361

13019

2.8%

Heart Failure

272

6042

4.5%

Kidney Failure, Chronic

81

372

21.8%

Alcoholism

295

713

41.4%

Epilepsy

2470

3256

75.9%

Tuberculosis

1238

6752

18.3%

Liver cirrhosis

155

1983

7.8%

Kidney Diseases

2667

1095

243.6%

Cross Infection

167

1255

13.3%

Parkinson Disease

411

396

103.8%

Lymphoma

144

3939

3.7%

Hypersensitivity

159

1357

11.7%

Breast neoplasms

0

11

0.0%

Lung neoplasms

0

23

0.0%

Skin neoplasms

0

10

0.0%

Melanoma

0

2491

0.0%

HIV infections

0

142

0.0%

Brain Neoplasms

0

10

0.0%

Prostatic Neoplasms

0

0

-

Arthritis, Rheumatoid

0

0

-

Neoplasm Metastasis

0

0

-

Occupational Diseases

0

136

0.0%

Neoplasm Recurrence, Local

0

0

-

Substance-Related Disorders

0

25

0.0%

Pregnancy Complications

0

84

0.0%

Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

0

0

-

Genetic Predisposition to Disease

0

0

-

Wounds and Injuries

0

8

0.0%

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

0

1

0.0%

Ovarian Neoplasms

0

24

0.0%

Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

0

1

0.0%

Arrhythmias, Cardiac

0

0

-

Pancreatic Neoplasms

0

30

0.0%

Colorectal Neoplasms

0

14

0.0%

Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic

0

0

-

Total

19714

83341

23.7%