BLITS: Getting the Best fromEMBASE.com

Embase & Systematic Searching

Key tips and tricks in 10 minutes...

Our content overview

The Cochrane Handbook for Sys. Reviews provides great insight...

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Our content overview

Emtree: Biomedical thesaurus, over 60k terms

Embase: Fully indexed: Over 8000 journals, 1974-

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

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Quickly sorting out what’s what...

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Embase Unique Embase & Medline Medline on Embase

[embase/lim] NOT[medline]/lim

[embase/lim] AND[medline]/lim

[medline/lim] NOT[embase]/lim

Tips on how to use our Evidence Based Medicine filters...

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Cochrane ReviewEmbase: introduced in 2006Medline: introduced in 2000

Controlled Clinical TrialEmbase: introduced in 1994Medline: introduced in 1995

Meta AnalysisEmbase: introduced in 1994Medline: introduced in 1989

Randomized Controlled TrialEmbase: introduced in 1994Medline: available from 1966 on

Systematic ReviewEmbase: introduced in 2004Medline: not available

Another handy tool...

Leveraging study types and populations in your search

Use the study types filter and population option

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- Study types and population are so called checked tags; the indexers ‘must’ check for this type of information.

- Detailed information on checktags and description of it’s meaning can be found in indexing guide 2012 (embase.com/info)

And a third...

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Using proximity operators to drill down a free text search

Using proximity operators

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Proximity operators let you search for words or phrases at any specified distance from each other.

NEAR/n

This requests terms which are within 'n' words of each other, in either direction.cardiac near/5 catheter retrieves:"Despite complicated cardiac anatomy, catheter ablation of AT..."? "... patients undergoing catheter ablation for cardiac arrhythmias ..."?"...a continuous thermodilution cardiac output pulmonary artery catheter."?

NEXT/n

This requests terms which are within 'n' words of each other in the order specified.hip next/3 prosthesis retrieves:"... rheumatoid arthritis, joint surgery, hip or knee prosthesis ..."?"metal on metal hip resurfacing, prosthesis failure (complication, diagnosis)..."?

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