Search

METEOR’s search works in a similar way to other search engines. You can use keywords or terms to pull up related content. The below tips are specific to METEOR and will help you to find what you need.

Try searching using either a keyword, specific term or METEOR ID number.

METEOR ID search

If you’re a returning user and know an item’s METEOR ID, you can enter it in the search box. Clicking the search icon will take you straight to the item’s page.

Autocomplete

METEOR will automatically display suggestions for search terms as you’re typing. This predictive text will show you METEOR entries that exist for the topic you’re searching on. You don’t have to use any of these suggestions, but they may make your searching process faster and easier.

Pressing ‘tab’ will select the top suggestion. Otherwise, selecting from the list of suggestions will put the suggested search term into the search box. You can then click the search icon to find related content. Clicking anywhere on the search results will take you to the item’s page.

Spelling correction

METEOR will show search results with spelling correction. Misspelled terms can still be selected for search where relevant.

Dropdown options

The drop-down menus directly below the search text box allow you to limit the search results to any of the 18 content types in METEOR (see Learn about metadata to view the list), by item creation dates, and item revision dates.

Content types

Content types allow you to limit your search to various metadata building blocks and other topic or help content found in METEOR. See Learn about metadata to view a list of metadata item types that you can search in METEOR. Searching on Topic pages will give results from METEOR’s ‘non-metadata’ pages which explain metadata, how it is managed, how to use METEOR, and how to develop metadata.

Searching on Help will give results from all the pop-up information boxes that are linked to each metadata item. The Help search looks through all text from the METEOR Business Rules, which is accessed through the small ‘i’ icon used throughout the site.

Created date and Revision date

The Created and Revision date dropdown options limit your search to when an item was created or last revised. METEOR will search any time by default, or you can select or specify a custom period.

Custom search syntax

METEOR uses Lucene search syntax. This functionality can be useful to fine-tune your search results even more. Some of the commands include:

  1. Restrict search to the titles of items by using Name: Searchterm. Note that it has to be written exactly as Name, with the capital N. Using name will not work. It doesn’t matter if there’s a space around the colon or not.
  2. Force a second term to be included by using AND.
  3. Widen your search to include another option using the term OR.

For example, if you’re looking for something with the word ‘baby’ in the title you would use Name: baby. METEOR will also give you results for the plural of the search term, so if you search on ‘baby’ you will also get results for ‘babies’. If looking for something with two terms (‘baby’ and ‘admission’) you would use Name: baby AND admission.

Sort by

You can also display your search results with a range of options in the Sort by drop-down menu on the right. You can sort on Relevance, Most/Least Recently Created, Most/Least Recently Updated, and Alphabetically (A–Z and Z–A).

Clear

The Clear button resets the Search page.

Filtering search results

You can fine-tune your search results using the filters that appear in the left-hand menu after searching any term. These filters are dynamic and will only display options specific to your search term, for example, only registration authorities relating to your search term will be displayed. You can use multiple filters at once.

Some of the filters change depending on your role within METEOR. If you are using METEOR without an account, you can search on metadata item type, public registration statuses, METEOR ID, and registration authority. You are also able to compare two items.

If you are using METEOR without an account, you will not be able to save bookmarks for items you’re interested in. There are also some non-public registration statuses that you won’t be able to see.

If you wish to save bookmarks, you can sign up for a free METEOR account easily, just follow the Sign up now prompts after clicking on the Sign In button. If you have an account, you will also be able to subscribe to notifications about changes to specific items in METEOR.

If you are logged in to METEOR as a metadata developer, or any other official role, there are some additional search options. You will be able to restrict your search to the full range of registration status options, including non-public statuses. You will also be able to save bookmarks and subscribe to notifications about changes to items.

Each search result has a small ‘hamburger’ icon on the right . This gives you download links for the metadata item as a PDF or a Word document.


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Acute renal failure

327454 | Glossary Item
Acute renal failure is defined as when the 24 hour urine output is <410 ml, creatinine is ≥133 µmol / L and no chronic dialysis is being administered.
Recorded: Health

Bilirubin

327456 | Glossary Item
A pigment produced when the liver processes waste products.
Recorded: Health

Intensive care

327452 | Glossary Item
Intensive care is defined as care provided by an intensive care team where one of the following is needed: invasive ventilation, ionotropes, non-invasive ventilation (>50% continuously>6h), needing 1:1 nursing or continuous renal replacement therapy.
Recorded: Health

Mental health non-government organisation service type

442525 | Glossary Item
A specific category of support provided by a mental health NGO for people living with a mental illness, their families and carers, or the broader community.
Recorded: Health

Palliative care

367325 | Glossary Item | Palliative Care Intergovernmental Forum
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-limiting illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
Recorded: Health

Primary palliative care agency

367384 | Glossary Item | Palliative Care Intergovernmental Forum
A health care service agency that does not substantively work in the area of palliative care, but does have a primary, or 'first contact', relationship with people with a life-limiting illness and adopts a palliative approach to the care provided.
Recorded: Health

Specialist palliative care agency

367381 | Glossary Item | Palliative Care Intergovernmental Forum
An agency that is substantively involved in delivering care to patients requiring palliative care and their carer(s). Care may be provided on an ongoing basis or on a consultative basis, and may be provided in community or inpatient settings.
Recorded: Health

Tissue sample

545520 | Glossary Item
A small section of tissue, which is an aggregation of similarly specialised cells which together perform certain specific functions. They are generally collected for clinical, research or quality and safety monitoring purposes. If the samples are from humans, personal history and medical information may also be stored along with a written consent to use the samples and sample information in research studies.
Recorded: Health

Trauma

357696 | Glossary Item
Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
Recorded: Health

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