What you need to know about Embase…
Your presenter: Ann-Marie Roche
Welcome to Embase!
Need to know
• Webinar control panel:– ‘chat’ or ‘ask a question’ for questions and comments– Option for full screen view
• Q&A during and time at end.
CONTENTS
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• Tools• Why Embase and who uses Embase• Guiding users through…
– Initial investigation– Setting up search strategies– Refining, editing and managing
search results
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• Customer support and training page• Webinars
• Search Guides and white papers
• Videos
• Newsletter registration
SUPPORT TOOLS
• Revamping Help and Support in Embase
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Webinar overview 2013
• Intro webinars – once a quarter
• Topic webinars – Evidence-Based-Medicine, Adverse Events, Emtree, Tips and Tricks for trainers
• 12 webinars in 2014
Webinars in 2014
• Looking for ideas from you from you for NEW webinars
• Extending the number of intro webinars to other time-zones and languages
• Repeat popular topics from this year and include priorities like Medical Devices
WEBINARS IN EMBASE
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• Getting started
• Designing your search
• Refining your search
• Managing your search
• Setting up and managing email
alerts and saved searches
NEW VIDEOS
CURRENTLY ON WWW.ELSEVIER.COM/ONLINE-TOOLS/EMBASE/CUSTOMER-SUPPORT BUT MOVING TO WWW.ELSEVIER.COM/ONLINE-TOOLS/EMBASE/TRAINING-AND-SUPPORT
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NEW SUPPORT IN PRODUCT
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WHY EMBASE?
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Conference proceedings
HOW EMBASE DELIVERS VALUE
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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In Press (unpublished)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 literature
They only close alternative is reading
all the articles
Good precision and recall balance
Automation and documentation
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• Systematic reviews of the (biomedical) literature
• Health Technology Assessments or rapid advisories
• Comparative Effectiveness Reviews
• Post-market surveillance and / or clinical evaluations for Medical Devices
• Comprehensive ‘scanning/monitoring’ literature for drug adverse effects, emerging public health threats, off-label drug use, efficacy, medication errors, drug-drug interactions, abuse and misuse, quality complaints, counterfeiting, inaccurate or inappropriate statements on drugs and devices in data. Common heading could be Pharmacovigilance.
• If users have a more ‘general’ research need – Scopus for example is a great solution.
WHO BENEFITS FROM USING EMBASE
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• How current is Embase. Does it have AIP and In Process for example?
• Where do conference abstracts come from?
• Is all of MEDLINE in Embase? Therefore do I NOT need to search both? Check out our Embase/MEDLINE and differences between Emtree/MeSH white paper
• Why do I need indexing?
FAQS
Emtree: Biomedical thesaurus, over 60k terms
Embase: Fully indexed: Over 8,000 journals, 1974-
(5.5M not in MEDLINE)
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
http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/embase/about
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5.5m 9m10m
MEDLINEEmbase
CONTENT
[EMBASE/LIM] NOT [MEDLINE]/LIM
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2. EXPANDTo expose and summarize the information in biomedical articles beyond title and abstract: discovering in-depth data about drugs, diseases and medical devices
1. TRANSLATETo bring the semantic richness of medical terminology within your grasp: mapping many synonyms to a single (natural language) preferred terminology
3. FOCUSTo identify the key concepts hidden within those articles – what they are really about – providing you with a toolkit to find answers beginning with comprehensive searches
INDEXING
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INDEXING
MEDLINE INDEXING IS MAPPED TO EMTREE TERMSSEE WHITE PAPER: COVERAGE OF MEDLINE ON EMBASE
“When MeSH terms are mapped to Emtree,
subheadings are mapped to Embase subheadings.
Since not all MeSH subheadings have an exact Emtree equivalent, some of them generate Emtree terms
rather than subheadings.”
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CASE STUDY
Meet Karol, an information specialist supporting pharmacovigilence. Karol 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 struggles to be confident when reporting.Let’s dive in and show her how she may quickly review all side effects for her drugs, saving her time, while being confident that she is not missing anything with Embase’s current and unique content.
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INITIAL INVESTIGATION
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PLAN YOUR SEARCH
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Which
content/publication
types do you need to
cover?
How will you find
the best terms –
comprehensive/
broad/specific
Do you need to limit to
specific years, age groups
or specific studies? Are
there specific subheading
for drugs and diseases?
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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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CHECK FILTERS
CLICK ON DISEASE FILTER FOR EXAMPLE, TO SEE WHICH DISEASES ARE REFERENCED WITH JANUVIA, EITHER AS A
THERAPEUTIC AREA OR SIDE EFFECT.
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Find interesting search terms or drug and disease relationships without having to consult the full text.
CHECK ARTICLES FOR SEARCH TERMS
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START BUILDING YOUR SEARCH
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START WITH EMTREE
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Search for over 60K terms, including MeSH terms and over 30K
drug and chemical terms
Click here to search further in an Embase search form, mapping all
synonyms
Click here to the see the results, exploded
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REVIEW EMTREE TERMS
Take note of any Synonyms listed
Consider the term’s History
Look at the CAS registry number(s) displayed
Read the entry provided from Dorland’s dictionary, when
available
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• Track the efficacy of saxagliptin in treating diabetes type 2 and compare to other dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors• Investigate the use of subheadings, such as: ‘Pharmacokinetics’,
‘Adverse Drug Reaction’, ‘Drug Toxicity’• Use explosion to investigate other depeptidyl peptidase 4
inhibitors
REVIEW QUESTION 1
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Find disease management studies for Type II diabetes
•Look for your term in Emtree
•Use the disease search form for disease subheadings.
•Use major focus to limit your results.
REVIEW QUESTION 2
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REVIEW QUESTION 3
• Evaluate the evidence for suicide risk in children treated for depression with SSRIs• Evaluate the evidence that children treated for depression
using serotonin reuptake inhibitors are at increased risk of suicide
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REVIEW QUESTION 4
• What are the pro’s and con’s for metal-on-metal hip implants vs other types of hip prosthesis?• What are the pro’s and con’s for metal-on-metal hip implants
vs other types in different patient groups?
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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
BUILD AND COMBINE SEARCHES
REFER TO HELP FOR MORE GUIDANCE AND LINKS TO MATERIALS SUCH AS THE QUICK USER GUIDE.
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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
BUILD AND COMBINE SEARCHES
REFER TO HELP FOR MORE GUIDANCE AND LINKS TO MATERIALS SUCH AS THE QUICK USER GUIDE.
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REFINE, EDIT AND MANAGE
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• From Emtree facet “Types of article or study”• Include many more terms than check tags• Now include “Topic terms” (from 2011)
Topic terms: 10 terms ending with (topic)
Topic terms were introduced in 2011 to differentiate between study types, indexed when the article IS the primary report for an RCT (for example), and articles in which that term is only a topic that is discussed.
STUDY TYPES AND TOPIC TERMS
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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 FOR MORE GUIDANCE
Check out our training videos at www.elsevier.com/online-tools/embase/customer-support#videos for more guidance.
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REGISTERING FOR EMAIL ALERTS AND SAVE SEARCHES
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• Setting up email alerts• Saving your searches• Staying up to date
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• Save in personal folders or share your saved searches.
• Edit sub-searches within your main search strategy and re-run
• Re-use a save search - #name in future searches
SAVING SEARCHES
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Q&A
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• Our next intro webinar is Jan 22 2014!
• You may review our up to date webinar schedule on our webinar page.
• Slides and recording will be sent as well as any further questions?
THANK YOU