Embase provides access to biomedical literature. It includes over 6 million citations and over 2,900 journals not included in PubMed. It is known for its coverage of international biomedical literature, drug research, medical device information, and indexing of conference abstracts.
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Embase also provides unique search forms not available in other databases. Check out the FAQs and video tutorials to learn about effective searching of this database.
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Put phrases inside quotation marks to find that exact phrase
"thyroid storm"
AND = all search words must be present but do not have to be adjacent, software assumes AND if no operators are listed
"bipolar disorder" AND parenting
OR = at least one of the search words must be present
adolescen* OR teen$
NOT = search words before NOT must be present, any search words listed after NOT must be absent
"breast cancer" NOT female$
NEAR = search words must be within x words of each other, words can be in either order)
symptom NEAR/5 fever ( at most 4 words between the words)
NEXT = search words must x words of each other, words must be in specific order listed
symptom NEXT/5 fever (at most 4 words between words, symptom must appear before headache)
Note: Use parentheses to indicate what parts of search should be processed first.
vaping AND (adolescen* OR teen$)
* (asterisk) = replaces 1 or more letters, type at least three characters before using *, * can be placed in middle or at end of word
catheter* searches for catheters, catheterization, etc., but not catheter
? (question mark) = replaces 1 letter
catheter? searches for catheters, but not catheter or catheterization
$ (dollar sign) = replaces 0 or 1 letter
catheter$ searches for catheter and catheters, but not catheterization
NOTE: Truncation characters may be used within phrases. Example: "cardiac catheter$"
The following tutorials are made available by our Embase vendor, Elsevier.