embase introduction - 13 july 2014
DESCRIPTION
In this webinar we introduce you to the workflows supported by Embase, describe the benefits of Embase content and coverage and show you how you may utilize deep drug indexing to pinpoint and track biomedical information.TRANSCRIPT
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Welcome to our Embase introduction webinar!
Your presenter: Sherry WinterClick icon to add picture
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DISCOVERY PRE-CLINICAL CLINICAL POST-
LAUNCH
A SUITE OF INTEROPERABLE, DOMAIN-SPECIFIC, DECISION SUPPORT TOOLSEMBASE IS PART OF OUR LIFE SCIENCE
SOLUTIONS
Characterize targets & analyze disease pathways
Characterize & discover moleculesIdentify & confirm lead compounds
Translate preclinical data in humans(Translational)
Monitor drug adverse events &real-world evidence data in literature
Integrate the world of data & solutions
Drug Candidate Selection
Go-No Go Decision
Preclinical Data
Validation
Managing risk
Text Mining & Data Integration
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Webinar control panel:
• ‘Ask a question’ for questions and comments
• Option for full screen view
• Q&A at the end
NEED TO KNOW
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WHY DO PEOPLE USE EMBASE?
Pharma DevicesAcademi
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Track literature
Aggregate
evidence
Postmarket Surveil.
(PV)
Compet. Intel.
Clinical Evaluatio
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Systematic
Review
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DELIVERING VALUE TO YOUR BIOMEDICAL SEARCHES
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In Press (unpublished)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 management E-mail Alerting API Interoperability
Deep indexing using own taxonomy (EMTREE)
We make sure you don’t miss
any biomedical literatureThe only close
alternative is reading
all the articles
Good precision and recall balance
Automation and documentation
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WE MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS ANY
BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE
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CONTENT OVERVIEW
Emtree: Biomedical thesaurus, over 69k terms
Embase: Fully indexed: Over 8,400 journals (including MEDLINE), 1950-
MEDLINE: 2,500 journals: MeSH terms are 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
Including >6M not found in MEDLINE
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BIOMEDICAL SCOPE AND COVERAGE
EXTENSIVE COVERAGE OF PEER-REVIEWED BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE
Pharmacology & Toxicology 12%
General Clinical Medicine 11%
Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
10%
Neurology & Behavioral Medicine 8%
Microbiology & Infectious Disease 7%
Cardiology & Hematology 6%
Psychiatry & Mental Health 6%
Oncology 5%
Healthcare Policy & Management 4%
Allergy & Immunology 4%
Pediatrics 4%
Endocrinology & Metabolism 3%
Obstetrics & Gynecology 3%
Biomedical Engineering & Medical Devices
3%
Anesthesiology & Intensive Care 3%
Gastroenterology 2%
Respiratory Medicine 2%
Nephrology & Urology 2%
Dermatology 2%
Other topics 28%
Including public health, basic
biomedical science and topics
included from MEDLINE
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CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Coverage began in 2009. Click here for an up to date list (http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/embase/about )
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DEEP INDEXING
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EMBASE INDEXING COMPARED TO MEDLINE
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PRECISE RETRIEVAL
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START SEARCHING…
Find the best terms for your search and include synonyms automatically with autocomplete in Quick Search
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EASY-TO-USE FILTERS
FOCUS SEARCH TO RELEVANT AND MANAGEABLE PROPORTIONS
Click on Drug Filter for example, to see which drugs are referenced in
your search.
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EASY TO MANAGE RESULTS
WITH EMAIL ALERTS, EXPORTING AND ADVANCE SEARCHING
Register to set up email alerts to automatically
receive new search results (frequencies range from
daily to yearly)
Copy the search query to Advanced Search to apply
additional limits
Export, print or share results – choose from formats
including RIS, text or CSV
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SEARCHING IN EMBASE FOR
RESULTS
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a. Building systematic searches
b. Pinpointing specific drug and disease-related information
c. Saving searches and setting up alerts
POLL: WHAT ARE YOU MOST INTERESTED IN?
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Meet Carol, a clinical liaison librarian, in the Center for Evidence-Based Research. Carol is working on a systematic review for publication and she needs to adhere to specific guidelines to ensure she has conducted a through search of the literature. Let’s dive into EMBASE and show Carol how she may efficiently search all relevant biomedical literature, while being confident that she is not missing anything.
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Meet Carol, an information specialist supporting pharmacovigilence. Carol needs to ensure that she is setting up searches across all relevant sources, to track all adverse events for 3 of their products on the market. There is so much info to track and she has to be confident when reporting that she has not missed anything.Let’s dive in to EMBASE and see how Carol may quickly review all side effects for her drugs, while being confident that she is not missing anything
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ARE YOU MISSING SOMETHING?
2 thesaurus assisted searches
but different results? Embase has
unique journal content and conference abstracts…
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ARE YOU MISSING SOMETHING?
We were looking for digoxin AND ‘antibiotics’ but MEDLINE does NOT index digoxin in this article.
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• 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
BUILDING AND COMBINING SEARCHES
Refer to http://info.embase.com/helpfiles for more guidance and links to materials such as the Quick User
Guide.
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• 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
REFINING YOUR SEARCH
Check out our training videos at www.trainingdesk.elsevier.com/embase for more guidance
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• Q&A will be sent to you by email and for more information and questions please contact your regional office
• Our next Embase webinar is on Sept 24 and is focused on literature searching for Medical Devices.
• From July 31, please go to Help for all Embase training materials and a webinar overview
THANK YOU
SEE YOU NEXT TIME!
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