Embase – Answers to your biomedical

questions

Your host: Chris Flemming Your presenter: Ann-Marie Roche

Welcome to our Embase webinar!

Embase – Answers to your biomedical

questions

Your host: Chris Flemming Your presenter: Ann-Marie Roche

Welcome to our Embase webinar!

About us

• Webinar control panel:

• ‘chat’ or ‘ask a question’ for questions

and comments• Option for full screen view

• Q&A at the end

Need to know

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Embase is the world’s most comprehensive, intelligent biomedical research tool, providing the drug and drug-related research community with reliable and authoritative content, to advance new biomedical and pharmaceutical discovery.

ConfidenceFind all relevant articles that may not otherwise be found by alternative databasesDeep biomedical indexing All relevant, up-to-date, biomedical information from the research literaturePrecise retrievalDeep and focused research through powerful retrieval tools

What is Embase

CONFIDENCE

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Emtree: Biomedical thesaurus, over 60k terms

Embase: Fully indexed: Over 7,700 journals (including MEDLINE), 1950-

MEDLINE: 2,500 journals unique to Embase, mapped to Embase

indexing, 1950- (including MEDLINE Classic)

Embase Classic:

Digitally scanned and

re-indexed, 1947-1973

AIP and In Process:

Indexing added, from 2009

Conference Abstracts:

Indexing added, from 2009

1947 1950 1974 2009

Content Overview

Including 5.5M not found in MEDLINE

DEEP INDEXING

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60K terms (>260,000 synonyms) and all MeSH terms

29K drug and chemical terms

Updated 3 times a year (back-posting each time)

All drug generic names described by FDA and EMA, all International Non-Proprietary Names (INNs) described by WHO from 2000.

Deep indexing - Emtree

What is mapping? Mapping means you retrieve the same results regardless of which term you use e.g. Type II diabetes or non insulin dependant diabetes mellitus.

78 drug and disease subheadings

Deep indexing - Emtree

14 study types, including NEW Diagnostic Test Accuracy Study

PRECISE RETRIEVAL

Start searching…

Find the best terms for your search and include synonyms automatically with

autocomplete in Quick Search

Click on Disease Filter for example, to see which diseases are referenced with Januvia, either as a therapeutic area or side effect.

Conference Abstracts

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• Coverage began in 2009. • http

://embase.com/info/what-is-embase/coverage for the up to date list of conferences and number of abstracts covered.

Registering in Embase

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• Setting up email alerts

• Saving your searches

• Staying up to date

EMBASE: A CASE STUDY

Case study

•A clinician is working on a systematic review for publication. She needs to adhere to certain guidelines to ensure she has conducted a through search of the literature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzZbYMS1tQ4

Question

•Are there any risks associated with the administration of antibiotics together with digoxin in a patient with congestive heart failure who has contracted pneumonia?

• Articles like this contain vital information...

For example…

Comprehensive searching in Embase

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2 sets of results…Why are the results so different and

does it matter…?

23 synonyms as well as ‘antibacterial agent’ are searched simultaneously as well as over 38 narrower

terms (including moxifloxacin).

No simultaneous searching of synonyms or narrower terms= Only ‘antibacterial

agent’ is searched and this does not find all the vital information

Found in your Embase results, not in your non-indexed supported search...

2 thesaurus assisted searches but different results? Embase has unique content ,such as

conference abstracts.

Found in your Embase search, not in your MEDLINE search...

We are looking for digoxin AND ‘antibacterial agent’ but Medline does NOT index digoxin in this article.

Poll

The poll should appear on your screen shortly...

Let’s take a look at Embase...

…by going to www.embase.com

Building and combining searches

• Use single quotes to capture a phrase ‘diabetes mellitus’ for example (not with Autocomplete in Quick Search)

• Break up your search into individual searches, such as a drug search (in Drug Search form) and a disease search (in Disease Search form) and combine your results in Session Results

• Run your cursor over your search to Edit or copy to a Search Form for guided editing.

• Truncation and operators, AND, OR, NOT, NEXT, NEAR

Refer to http://info.embase.com/helpfiles for more guidance and links to materials such as the Quick User Guide.

Refining your search

• Quick and Advanced Limits on Advanced, Drug and Disease Search forms

• Major Focus on all advanced forms – major drugs and diseases retrieved

• Field limits under Advanced Search box to search in specific fields such as article title, abstract, conference name, drug name etc

• Drug and Disease Subheadings to limit to specific concepts such as Adverse Drug Reaction, Drug Comparison and Side Effect.

• Filters on Session Results page for specific diseases or study types for example

Check out our training videos at www.trainingdesk.elsevier.com/embase for more guidance.

Questions & Answers

• Q&A will be sent to you by email and for more information and questions please contact bdtraining@elsevier.com

• Our next introductory Embase webinar is on October 17th (10AM and 7PM PDT) with a deeper look at EBM on October 24th with special guest.

• Go to www.trainingdesk.elsevier.com/embase for all training related materials

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