embase introduction - 13 july 2014

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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.

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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In Press (unpublished)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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