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Table 1 Most frequent terms identified in the Term Identification Set

From: Development of a heart failure filter for Medline: an objective approach using evidence-based clinical practice guidelines as an alternative to hand searching

Terms

Record Occurrence

% Record Occurrence

MeSH

  

   Heart failure

62

70.5%

   Ventricular dysfunction, Left

14

15.9%

Textwords/phrases

  

   Heart failure

77

87.5%

   Congestive heart failure

36

40.9%

   New York Heart Association

24

27.3%

   Left ventricular ejection fraction

23

26.1%

   CHF

20

22.7%

   Chronic heart failure

17

19.3%

   Cardiomyopathy

15

17.1%