Table 2.

MeSH term comparison between clinician reading libraries and a random sample

Major MeSH terms read more often by clinicians	Frequency: clinician	Frequency: random	p-value	diff	Major MeSH terms occurring more often in a random sample	Frequency: clinician	Frequency: random	p-value	diff
Pain/drug therapy	0.0186	0.0010	0.0000	0.0176	Polymorphism, Genetic	0.0003	0.0042	0.0000	−0.0038
Hip joint/surgery	0.0154	0.0000	0.0000	0.0154	DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism	0.0002	0.0037	0.0000	−0.0035
Arthroscopy/methods	0.0130	0.0002	0.0000	0.0129	Models, Chemical	0.0002	0.0035	0.0000	−0.0033
Analgesics/opioids, therapeutic uses	0.0135	0.0007	0.0000	0.0128	Genetic Variation	0.0008	0.0035	0.0012	−0.0027
Meta-analysis as topic	0.0122	0.0000	0.0000	0.0122	Transcription Factors/metabolism	0.0005	0.0032	0.0005	−0.0027
Internet	0.0133	0.0013	0.0000	0.0120	Bacterial Proteins/metabolism	0.0000	0.0027	0.0000	−0.0027
Quality of life	0.0133	0.0032	0.0000	0.0102	Plant Extracts/pharmacology	0.0003	0.0025	0.0012	−0.0022
Physician–patient relationship	0.0116	0.0017	0.0000	0.0099	Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology	0.0002	0.0023	0.0006	−0.0022
Review literature as topic	0.0098	0.0002	0.0000	0.0096	DNA/chemistry	0.0000	0.0022	0.0002	−0.0022
Analgesics/opioids, adverse effects	0.0087	0.0000	0.0000	0.0087	Polymorphism, Genetic	0.0003	0.0042	0.0000	−0.0038
Minor MeSH terms read more often by clinicians	Frequency: clinician	Frequency: random	p-value	diff	Minor MeSH terms occurring more often in a random sample	Frequency: clinician	Frequency: random	p-value	diff
Humans	0.8608	0.6027	0.0000	0.2581	Animals	0.0754	0.2328	0.0000	−0.1574
Adult	0.2979	0.1625	0.0000	0.1354	Mice	0.0182	0.0675	0.0000	−0.0493
Female	0.4321	0.3025	0.0000	0.1296	Rats	0.0141	0.0458	0.0000	−0.0317
Male	0.4216	0.2937	0.0000	0.1280	Molecular sequence data	0.0035	0.0312	0.0000	−0.0276
Middle aged	0.2692	0.1490	0.0000	0.1202	Cell line	0.0031	0.0220	0.0000	−0.0189
Aged	0.1868	0.1040	0.0000	0.0828	Amino acid sequence	0.0014	0.0193	0.0000	−0.0179
Treatment outcome	0.0989	0.0515	0.0000	0.0474	Cells, cultured	0.0048	0.0217	0.0000	−0.0168
Adolescent	0.1100	0.0690	0.0000	0.0410	Base sequence	0.0031	0.0185	0.0000	−0.0154
Elderly: 80 and over	0.0722	0.0388	0.0000	0.0333	Cell line, tumor	0.0034	0.0170	0.0000	−0.0136
Prospective studies	0.0548	0.0240	0.0000	0.0308	Kinetics	0.0016	0.0152	0.0000	−0.0136