Table 1.

 Basic search algorithm and results

Specialty	MeSH term	No of studies	No (%) with acronym in title	Total No of acronyms
Cardiology	Myocardial infarction	5063	1912 (37.8)	804
Endocrinology	Diabetes mellitus, type 2	4994	618 (12.4)	299
Rheumatology	Arthritis, rheumatoid	1404	114 (8.1)	69
Pulmonary medicine	Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive	1691	86 (5.1)	50
Psychiatry	Depressive disorder, major	2284	150 (6.6)	49
Total*		14 965	2737 (18.3)	1149

*Differs from sum as studies might be related to more than one keyword.