Are you researching drug therapies or medical devices? Try
using Embase, a database that indexes the latest research from 8,100 journals, 11,500
conferences, and several pre-print services.
- Clinical evaluations of pharmaceuticals or
- Conference abstracts dating back to 2009
- Supplemental results to your PubMed search,
especially for a systematic review
Usage Tips:
- Set up
a personal account to receive email alerts for saved searches
- View the Embase training resources
- Take advantage of the special search forms
that guide you in creating an effective search:
- PICO – uses the Patient, Intervention,
Comparison, Outcome framework to guide your search construction
- PV Wizard – for pharmaceutical vigilance
searches. This is especially helpful to search for adverse drug reactions
- Medical device – helps find information
about devices in clinical trials, adverse device effects, or device
economic information
- Drug – The Drug Search form includes specific
filters for drug behavior and route of administration
- Disease – The Disease Search form includes
disease search subheadings
What content is included?
- Over 37 million records including 3.6 million conference abstracts (Embase content)
- Over 2900 journals not indexed by Medline
- Content is indexed using Emtree subject headings, with over 86,000 preferred terms including 33,000 for drugs and chemicals and over 5,500 for medical devices
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Want to know more?
- Ask your
librarians for more information!
