During our 45-min webinar (including time for questions), our Embase expert, Ann-Marie Roche introduced:
• The basics of searching in Embase, including the different content sources, indexing and retrieval tools.
• Setting up email alerts and saving your searches.
3. Need to know
• Webinar control panel:
• ‘chat’ or ‘ask a question’ for questions
and comments
• Option for full screen view
• Q&A after presentation
4. What is Embase
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.
Confidence
Find all relevant articles that may not
otherwise be found by alternative
databases
Deep biomedical indexing
All relevant, up-to-date, biomedical
information from the research literature
Precise retrieval
Deep and focused research through
powerful retrieval tools
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8. Embase scope
“Other” includes traditional
MEDLINE topics: dentistry,
veterinary science, nursing
Embase covers all of Embase plus MEDLINE
(just the core drug & clinical areas are highlighted here)
10. Conference Abstracts
• Coverage began in
2009.
• Check
http://embase.com/info
/what-is-
embase/coverage for
the most up to date list
of conference
abstracts and
conferences covered.
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12. Deep indexing - Emtree
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 What is
names described by mapping?
FDA and EMA, all Mapping means
International Non- that searchers get
Proprietary Names the same results
(INNs) described by regardless of
WHO from 2000. which term they
use, e.g. Vioxx
(synonym) or
rofecoxib (the
preferred term).
13. Deep indexing - Emtree
14 study types, including NEW Diagnostic Test Accuracy Study
78 drug and disease subheadings
20. Let’s take a look at Embase...
…by going to www.embase.com
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Registering in Embase
•Setting up email alerts
•Saving your searches
23 •Staying up to date
25. • Q&A will be sent to you by email.
• For more information and questions please contact
bdtraining@elsevier.com
• Our next Embase webinar is on July 17th (10AM PDT).
• Go to www.trainingdesk.elsevier.com/embase for all
training related materials
Please fill out the survey
that appears on your
screen after leaving the
webinar.
Notas del editor
Content is key/backbone for Embase and Emtree provides consistency for Embase indexing and retrieval.(Over 450k conference abstracts)Embase continue to focus on building up content but also on enhancing functionality and indexing/quality.
The strategy for searching for Embase ONLY is included. This search will NOT include Medline unique and records which are overlapping Embase/MEDLINE.
Unique features:Every conference is summarized by a searchable review recordAll conference abstract records include searchable online abstractsAll conference abstracts & reviews are indexed with EmtreeConference name, date and location are searchable450K conferences covered.
Don’t loose those important searches, register in Embase so you may save your searches or set up email alerts. Registering also means you receive all up to date information such as upcoming webinars.Antibiotic and digoxin with drug combinationANDCongestive heart failure with drug therapyAND PneumoniaSave this search – remove drug therapy from disease and rerun main searchNow in session results, remove drug comparison from drug sub-searches and note asterix (indicates which searches have been effected by a change to a related search)– now click on result number to update your search strategy.Re-use a named search in a new search. For example you may have a group of #limitstrial AND digoxin
Compare the effectiveness of sitagliptin and saxagliptin in the treatment of type II diabetes mellitus (show this in Emtree)Go to Drug Search and type in sitagliptin and saxagliptin with drug comparison. Go to Emtree and show diabetes mellitus and then go to ‘type 2 diabetes mellitus’. Take this to Disease Search and combine with disease subheading ‘drug therapy’. Combine both searches.Show editing options. NOT [review]/limAdvanced combine on the Session Results: Last search above NOT saxagliptin search, for example #2 NOT #1.Quickly show Emtree to find suitable terms/subject headings and then using Drug Search to add subheadings.
Find disease management studies for Type II diabetesGo to Emtree and type in diabetes. Once you see the tree, select non-insulin dependant diabetes mellitus. Click on ‘take this to Disease search’. Point out ‘major focus’ option if users would like to limit their search to only records where the disease is of major importance and show on Disease Search form. Shoe quick and advanced limits.You can then add the subheading ‘disease management’. Check filters for drugs and study types.
Don’t loose those important searches, register in Embase so you may save your searches or set up email alerts. Registering also means you receive all up to date information such as upcoming webinars.Antibiotic and digoxin with drug combinationANDCongestive heart failure with drug therapyAND PneumoniaSave this search – remove drug therapy from disease and rerun main searchNow in session results, remove drug comparison from drug sub-searches and note asterix (indicates which searches have been effected by a change to a related search)– now click on result number to update your search strategy.Re-use a named search in a new search. For example you may have a group of #limitstrial AND digoxin
