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Embase® is a registered trademark of Elsevier BV.
EMBASE
Embase Review
SCREENSHOTS
KEY USE CASE: SYSTEMATIC
REVIEWS
January 2015
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EMBASE REVIEW
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WHY DO PEOPLE USE EMBASE?
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Pharma Devices Academia
Track
literature
Aggregate
evidence
Postmarket
Surveil.
(PV)
Compet.
Intel.
Clinical
Evaluation
Systematic
Review
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HOW EMBASE DELIVERS VALUE
Conference
proceedings
Very powerful
Search Environment
...by including literature and
information resources in a
timely manner
...by reading full-text to
identify drugs, diseases,
adverse affects, clinical
trials, drug trade names etc.
...by enabling advanced search
filters to drill down a
comprehensive search to a
relevant and manageable record
set
Scientific
Journals
In Press
(unpublished)
...by allowing users to automate
searching and result managementE-mail Alerting API Interoperability
Deep indexing using own taxonomy
(EMTREE)
We make sure you
don’t miss any
biomedical literature
The only close
alternative is
reading
all the articles
Good precision and
recall balance
Automation and
documentation
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COMPREHENSIVE CONTENT COVERAGE
ON AVERAGE >5000 RECORDS ADDED EACH WORKDAY!
Embase: Now covers over 8,400 journals
Indexed at Embase (over 5,700 titles)
Indexed by MEDLINE (e.g. on PubMed) (over 5,500 titles)
Over 2,700 journals
Indexed at Embase
Unique to Embase
Search:
[embase]/lim
Over 3,000 journals
Indexed at Embase
Also covered by MEDLINE
Search:
[embase]/lim AND
[medline]/lim
Over 2,500 journals
Indexed by MEDLINE
Also in MEDLINE
Search:
[medline]/lim NOT
[embase]/lim
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WHAT IS EMTREE?
A LIFE SCIENCE THESAURUS — A CONTROLLED VOCABULARY FOR BIOMEDICINE AND
RELATED LIFE SCIENCES
Easy to search • Over 70,000 preferred terms and more than 290,000 synonyms
Comprehensive
drug and Medical
Device searching
• Chemical names, trade names, laboratory/research codes, and more than
31,000 generic drugs and chemicals (FDA, EMEA and WHO)
• Over 3,000 specific terms for general and medical devices (e.g. endoscopes,
catheters, prostheses) as well as several thousand terms for related medical
procedures, (e.g. endoscopy, catheterization)
Up-to-date
• The latest drugs, diseases, organisms and procedures are indexed and added 3x
per year (with back-posting of older records). Includes all drug generic names
described by FDA and EMA, all International Non-Proprietary Names (INNs)
described by WHO from 2000
Inclusive
terminology• All MeSH terms, with links to more than 23,000 CAS registry numbers
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SEARCH OPTIONS THAT ALLOW YOU TO FOCUS RESULTS
SET SEARCH LIMITS WITH ADVANCED, DRUG AND DISEASE SEARCH OPTIONS
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AUTOMATED RESULTS MANAGEMENT
KEEP UP TO DATE ON THE LATEST RESULTS
Filter results using the left-hand filters (e.g., for drug), set up an email alert or export your results.
Also, edit search terms or copy to drug search from the search results page.
New Embase feature! Exportable filter data
provides new ways to analyze results
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EMBASE
SCREENSHOTS
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REGISTER
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QUICK SEARCH
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RESULT
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REFINE
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VIEW ABSTRACT
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BROWSE EMTREE
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BROWSE EMTREE
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BROWSE EMTREE
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BROWSE EMTREE
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FOCUS ON
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
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KEY USE CASE: SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
Understanding systematic reviews
• Systematic reviews have increasingly replaced
traditional narrative reviews and expert commentaries
as a way of summarizing
• Systematic reviews attempt to bring the same level of
rigour to reviewing research evidence as should be used
in producing that research evidence in the first place.
• High quality systematic reviews seek to
– Identify all relevant published and unpublished
evidence
– Select studies or reports for inclusion
– Assess the quality of each study or report
– Synthesise the findings from individual studies or
reports in an unbiased way
– Interpret the findings and present a balanced and
impartial summary of the findings with due
consideration of any flaws in the evidence.
• Embase is a key source for identifying published
(literature) and unpublished (conferences) evidence
and thus a structural component in most reviews.
Relevant product characteristics
• 2500+ journals that are not available on Medline;
• 3500+ conferences covered;
• Indexing of trial- and study types, reviews and meta-analysis;
• Selection based on abstract and index terms and dozens of filters;
• Ability to save, share and edit complex search strategies with a group;
Brand value
Embase is widely recognized as the authoritative source for systematic reviews
next to MEDLINE. Reviews that do not included a search on Embase are often
considered to be flawed or incomplete. That image is enforced by a steady
stream of independent research papers on the quality of databases and search
methods and by the thousands of yearly published systematic reviews that
prominently mention Embase as a source (see next slide).
Simplified workflow
A group of field
specialists and
researchers
decide on a
systematic
review strategy;
sources and
search strategy
Extensive
searches are run
across different
platforms
(Pubmed,
Embase, Cinahl
etc.)
Result sets are
deduplicated,
scanned and the
evidence is
aggregated and
graded
(meta-analysis)
Process and
outcomes are
peer reviewed
and published
and results
updated every
couple of years.
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Each systematic review addresses a clearly formulated question.
“Can antibiotics help in alleviating the symptoms of a sore throat?”
All existing primary research on a topic that meets certain criteria is searched for and collated, and
then assessed using stringent guidelines to establish whether or not there is conclusive evidence about
a specific treatment. The reviews are updated regularly, ensuring that treatment decisions can be
based on the most up-to-date and reliable evidence.
Cochrane Reviews are systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health
policy, and are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care.
They investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. They also
assess the accuracy of a diagnostic test for a given condition in a specific patient group and setting.
They are published online in The Cochrane Library and searchable using Embase
EFFECTIVE SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS —DRIVING HEALTH CARE DECISIONS
“HOW DO YOU KNOW IF ONE TREATMENT WILL WORK BETTER THAN ANOTHER,
OR IF IT WILL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD?”
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APPLY LIMITS AND FILTERS TO INVESTIGATE DATA FOR EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE
SEARCH ALL THE GATHERED EVIDENCE
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Browse Emtree, identify an interesting query and use it in a Disease Search, where
you can search using Disease Subheadings
BROWSE EMTREE TO UNCOVER RELATIONSHIPS AND SEARCH STRATEGIES
STREAMLINE RESEARCH PROCESS
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BROWSE EBM CONCEPTS IN EMTREE
EXPLORE EMTREE TO BUILD POWERFUL SEARCHES
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THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF REVIEWS
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SUMMARY
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• Embase is a comprehensive scientific literature database that goes back to 1947
and contains 29 million records — allows users to be confident they are finding all
critical information.
• Indexing is based on the full text of articles — the next best thing to reading the
full article; don’t miss important results.
• Efficient search tools guide users to the most relevant results — extract specific
drug and disease concepts from the literature in an easy and comprehensive
fashion.
• Systematic reviews are used to make informed health care decisions, and to make
policy decisions towards patient treatment and funding of specific
drugs/treatments. Therefore, it’s vital that systematic reviews are as accurate and
complete as possible. Reviews that do not included a search on Embase are often
considered to be flawed or incomplete.
KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER
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