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Designing search formulas
In literature monitoring, the ideal search will find all ADRs without turning up too many irrelevant results. How do you design a search formula that maintains this balance?
An exhaustive search
Marialaura Martinico, a scientific documentalist who works at various institutes, uses Embase to review all the scientific literature in an efficient, single and exhaustive search.
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Developing pharmaceuticals and performing pharmacovigilance requires a wide array of comprehensive, evidence-based medicine, drug and medical device efficacy studies.
Embase is a highly versatile, multipurpose and up-to-date biomedical database. It covers the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day and all articles are indexed in depth using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus Embase Indexing and Emtree®. The entire database is also conveniently available on multiple platforms.
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- The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guidelines
- Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0
- European Medicines Agency (EMA) committee - Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP)
- WHO Handbook for guideline development (2nd Edition)
- Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewers’ manual 2016 edition
- European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) - Process of information retrieval for systematic reviews and health technology assessments on clinical effectiveness (Version 1.2, December 2017)
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