The EMBASE family consists of three separate databases: (1) EMBASE: Excerpta Medica Database, and its subsets, (2) EMBASE Drugs and Pharmacology, and (3) EMBASE Psychiatry.
EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database, produced by Elsevier Science, is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine. EMBASE is one of the most widely used biomedical and pharmaceutical databases because of its currency and in-depth indexing. Frequent updates allow access to the latest medical and pharmacological trends. Approximately 375,000 records are added yearly.
The EMBASE Drugs and Pharmacology database, produced by Elsevier Science, contains the most important citations and abstracts to the worldwide drug literature. It is a subset of EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database, which indexes more than 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering and instrumentation. The database allows searchers to focus on the pharmaceutical industry. Coverage includes effects, use, and administration of all current, potential and experimental drugs, side effects, manufacturers, and trade names of approved and prospective drugs.
EMBASE Psychiatry is a bibliographic database with abstracts, covering all aspects of psychology, psychiatry, and addiction disorders, including disorder and patient characteristics, diagnoses, and treatments. Examples of covered topics include hospitalization, sexual behavior, suicide, mental deficiency, insurance, treatment efficacy, drug therapy, behavioral interventions, psychotherapy, patient compliance, and drug abuse. This database consists of 10-year rolling coverage, updated quarterly. Over 25,000 new records are added per year. Approximately 3,500 biomedical journals from 70 countries are screened for relevent information. In addition, all records from the top psychiatry journals are selected. EMBASE Psychiatry includes many important journals from Europe and Asia which are not found in other biomedical databases. Normal psychology, experimental psychology, and neurophysiology of mental processes are not included unless there is some relevance to a psychiatric disorder. The print counterpart of this database is the Excerpta Medica Abstract Journal on Psychiatry.
The following alphabetical list provides the two-letter label, the relevant alias, and an example for each EMBASE field.
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Label Name/Example
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AB Abstract [Word Indexed]
mitral valve prolapse.ab.
EMBASE include author-written abstracts when they are available.
Approximately 60% of the citations in EMBASE include abstracts.
Beginning in 1997, the number of references appears at the end of the
abstract.
AF All Searchable Fields
drug abuse.af.
All Fields (AF) is an alias for all of the fields which occur in the
source documents, including value-added fields such as Subject Headings.
The only thing excluded from an All Fields search are fields such as
"floating subheading" or "Heading word" which are created by the loading
process and do not actually appear in the record.
AN, UI Accession Number [Phrase Indexed]
93000001.an.
The Accession Number (AN) field contains an eight-digit number assigned
in EMBASE to uniquely identify a particular record.
AU Author [Phrase Indexed]
smith $.au.
The Author (AU) field contains up to 100 authors. The format for
authors is last name followed by one or more initials: Smith JC or
Smith J. If a single initial could not be transliterated with one
letter, two or more letters may be used. Occasionally a name will
include the full first name.
If there are more than 100 authors then only 99 are listed, followed by
the indication "et al."
CD Journal CODEN [Phrase Indexed]
aajnd.cd.
The Coden (CD) field contains a journal CODEN. CODENS are 5-digit codes
such as "AJDCA" which uniquely identify a journal title.
CF Conference Information [Word Indexed]
toyko.cf.
The Conference Information (CF) field contains supplementary information
about a conference such as its location. Conference information usually
is displayed as part of the source.
Individual words are indexed in the CF field; enter a single descriptive
word such as "japan".
CP Country of Publication [Phrase Indexed]
france.cp.
The Country of Publication (CP) field contains the full name of the
country in which a journal was published (United States of America).
The country name is entered into the index as a phrase.
DC, CC Drug Classification [Phrase Indexed]
0370102.dc.
The Drug Class (DC) field contains the EMCLAS classification scheme for
drugs, adverse reaction titles and pharmacy. Drug Classes are
represented by numerical codes which are explicated in the printed
EMTREE Thesaurus, Vol 1. Enter as much of a drug class code as
necessary for the level of specificity desired: for example, to search
for all psychotropic drugs enter "03703", but to search for
antidepressants enter "0370301".
EM, UP, IM, ND, IR, EW Entry Week [Phrase Indexed]
9301.em.
The Entry Week (EM) field contains the date (year and week) in which
a document was added to EMBASE.
FS Floating Subheading [Phrase Indexed]
an.fs.
Subheadings, or "link terms" are qualifiers added to EMTREE subject
headings to refine their meaning. Terms such as "adverse drug reaction"
or "drug toxicity", when combined with an EMTREE term, give a very
precise idea of what an article covers.
The Floating Subheadings (FS) field contains the 2-letter link terms,
such as "AN" for drug analysis. The fully spelled out subheadings for
any particular EMTREE term can be viewed by using the Pulldown menu
TOOLS/ Subheadings.
HW, ME Heading Word [Word Indexed]
antigen.hw.
Sometimes you may wish to retrieve every EMTREE subject heading that
includes a particular word; this is done by searching the single word in
the Subject Heading Word (HW) field.
You can also view every EMTREE term which contains a particular word by
using the Pulldown menu TOOLS/Permuted Index.
IB ISBN [Phrase Indexed]
0-8983-88686.ib.
The ISBN (IB) field contains the International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
for a book or monographic publication.
IN Institution [Word Indexed]
tufts.in.
The Institution (IN) field contains the primary author's affiliation,
which is usually the source for a reprint of the article.
This information is not standardized and often contains abbreviations.
Enter the single most descriptive word in an institution (harvard, not
university). Consider both full spellings and abbreviations.
Beginning in 1997, the primary author's e-mail address will be included
when provided in the original source material.
IS ISSN [Phrase Indexed]
0028-4793.is.
The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number
(ISSN) for the journal in which an article was published.
JN, JT Journal Name [Phrase Indexed]
jama.jn.
archiv$.jn.
The Journal Name (JN) field contains the full name of the journal in which
an article was published.
Journal names are indexed as phrases; enter enough letters of the
journal name to locate the name in the index, e.g. "new engl" (for New
England Journal of Medicine).
Stopwords such as "of" ARE included in the JN index, but when "the" is
the first word of a journal, it has been stripped.
JW Journal Word [Word Indexed]
internal medicine.jw.
The Journal Word (JW) field contains individual words from every
journal name in EMBASE.
Stopwords such as "the" or "of" are not included. This field is used to
retrieve every occurrence of a journal which includes a particular word,
such as "pharmacology."
LG, LA Language [Phrase Indexed]
fre.lg.
The Language (LG) field contains the language(s) of publication of an
article. The language name will appear in the index as a 3-letter code
(such as fre for french). The codes are usually, but not always, the
first three letters of the language name.
For a spelled-out list of languages, refer to the Limit/Languages
Pulldown menu.
MF Manufacturer Name [Phrase Indexed]
lilly.mf.
The Manufacturer Name (MF) field contains the full name of the
manufacturer of a drug discussed in an article. Manufacturer names are
listed in their brief form, for example, "Lilly" for "Eli Lilly." Enter
the first few letters of a manufacturer name and you will be shown the
index of names beginning with those letters.
OT, TT Original Title [Word Indexed]
heure.ot.
The Original Title (OT) field contains all non-English titles in the
original language. If the original title was in a non-Roman alphabet,
then the OT is transliterated.
Omit common articles when searching a foreign language: heure
not l'heure.
PB Publisher [Word Indexed]
elsevier.pb.
The Publisher (PB) field includes the publisher name for a book or other
non-journal publication. Enter the most distinctive part of a name to
locate a publisher, for example: "elsevier".
This field is usually displayed as part of the Source (SO) field.
PT Publication Type [Phrase Indexed]
conference proceedings.pt.
The Publication Type (PT) field contains one of the following
indications, "Journal", "Conference", "Book", or "Report," to indicated
the form of literature indexed.
RN Registry Number [Phrase Indexed]
3843-74-1.rn.
The Registry Number (RN) field contains the Chemical Abstracts Service
Registry number for a compound mentioned in an article.
Registry numbers appear and are searched with hyphens (50-07-0).
SD Source Description [Word Indexed]
"7".sd.
"22".sd.
The Source Description (SD) field contains the volume/issue/part and
pagination of a journal. The SD field usually display as part of the
Source (SO) field.
The SD field is used to supplement the journal name or title when a
particular citation is sought. Enter a single volume/issue or page
number and combine it with searches on other elements of the citation.
SH, DE, CT, SW Subject Headings [Phrase Indexed]
cd4 antigen.sh.
*cd4 antigen/
The Subject Heading (SH) field contains the EMTREE Thesaurus terms used
by EMBASE indexers to describe the content of an article.
EMTREE terms are organized in a hierarchy, or "tree" structure. You can
look up any subject heading using the TOOLS/Tree Pulldown menu.
EMTREE terms are entered into the index as phrases and should be
searched as they appear in the published EMTREE or in our Tree display.
All EMTREE terms and associated terms are indexed in the SH field.
SO Source (JN, PB, SD, YR, CF)
psycholog$.so.
The Source (SO) field includes a display of all the basic information
needed to locate a citation, including the Journal Name or Monograph
Publisher, the Vol/Issue, pagination, year of publication and Conference
Name or Report Number if applicable.
TG EMTAGS [Phrase Indexed]
"0888".tg.
The EMTAGS (TG) field contains the numerical code representing EMTAGS.
Until 1991, EMTAGS were used as a separate supplementary indexing scheme
to EMTREE; EMTAGS index broad categories such as "animal", "human",
various experimental subjects or routes of drug administration, etc.
Since 1991, EMTAG terms have always been included as part of the regular
EMTREE indexing. The codes have been retained as an alternate way to
search for certain broad categories, and are necessary for comprehensive
pre-1991 searching of these concepts.
EMTAGS are searched by their numerical code, as listed in the back of
the printed EMTREE Thesaurus, Vol 1. The codes can be searched with or
without leading zeros.
Many of the EMTAGS are also available for use as limits using the
Pulldown menu Limits/All Limits.
TI Title [Word Indexed]
down's syndrome.ti.
prozac.ti.
The Title (TI) field contains the title of a document in English. For
documents which are not written in English, the original or
transliterated title appears in a separate field, Original Title.
The title sometimes includes notes, in brackets, about the article, such
as an indication of language.
TN Trade Name [Phrase Indexed]
valium.tn.
The Trade Name and Manufacturer (TN) field contains both the trade name
and manufacturer for a drug discussed in an article.
TW Textword (AB, TI, TN)
mitral valve prolapse.tw.
The Textword (TW) field is an alias for all of the fields in a database
which contain text words and which are appropriate for a subject search.
The Textword field in EMBASE includes Title (TI) and Abstract (AB).
YR Year of Publication [Phrase Indexed]
1992.yr.
"96".yr.
The Year (YR) field contains the year in which an article or monograph
was published. The full year appears in the document but the year may be
searched either as a single 2-digit or a single 4-digit number.
The following limits are available from the Limit menu on the Main Search Screen:
Popular Command and Sentence Syntax Limits:
Abstracts Command Syntax: ..l/ ab=y Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to abstracts English Language Command Syntax: ..l/1 en=y Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to english Experimental Subjects Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to amphibia Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to higher plant Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to microorganism Female Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to female Human Command Syntax: ..l/1 hu=y Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to human Human Age Group Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to infant Languages Command Syntax: ..l/1 lg=fre Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to french Latest Update Command Syntax: ..l/1 up=y Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to update Male Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to male Priority Journals Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to priority Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to priority journals Publication Year Command Syntax: ..l/1 yr=96 Command Syntax: ..l/1 yr 92-93 Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to yr=96 Routes of Drug Administration Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to intraarterial
EMBASE Drugs and Pharmacology Search Label:
EMBASE Psychiatry Search Label:
Examples:
Accession Number
96318638
Authors
Hart LM. Stolk RP. Heine RJ. Grobbee DE. Van der Does FEE.
Maassen JA.
Institution
Sylvius Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Wassenaarseweg
72, 2333 AL Leiden; Netherlands.
Country of Publication
United States of America
Title
Association of the insulin-receptor variant Met-985 with hyperglycemia
and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in the Netherlands: A
population- based study.
Source
American Journal of Human Genetics. Vol 59(5) (pp 1119-1125), 1996.
Subject Headings
*Hyperglycemia
*Non Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
Netherlands
Disease Association
Population Research
Insulin Resistance
Receptor Gene
Oral Glucose Tolerance Test
Glucose Blood Level
Pancreas Islet Beta Cell
Glucose Intolerance
Human
Human Cell
Article
Priority Journal
*Insulin Receptor
*Methionine
Abstract
One of the characteristics of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
(NIDDM) is the presence of insulin resistance. Most NIDDM patients
have a normal sequence of the insulin receptor, indicating that, if
insulin-receptor mutations contribute to the development of NIDDM,
they will be present only in a minor fraction of the NIDDM population.
The goal of the present study was to examine whether insulin-receptor
mutations contribute to the development of NIDDM. We examined 161
individuals with NIDDM and 538 healthy controls from the
population-based Rotterdam study for the presence of mutations in the
insulin-receptor gene by SSCP. A heterozygous mutation changing
valine-985 into methionine was detected in 5.6% of diabetic subjects
and in 1.3% of individuals with normal oral glucose tolerance test.
Adjusted for age, gender, and body-mass index, this revealed a
relative risk for diabetes of 4.49 (95% confidence interval
1.59-12.25) for Met-985 carriers. When the total study group was
analyzed, the prevalence of the mutation increased with increasing
serum glucose levels (test for trend P < .005). We conclude that the
Met-985 insulin-receptor variant associates with hyperglycemia and
represents a risk factor for NIDDM.
EMTAGS
europe (0402). western europe (4021). diagnosis (0140). endocrine
system (0970). mammal (0738). human (0888). human tissue, cells
or cell components (0111). article (0060). priority journal (0007)
CAS Registry Numbers
59-51-8. 63-68-3. 7005-18-7
ISSN
0002-9297
Coden
AJHGAG
Language
English
Publication Type
Journal
Entry Week
9644
Accession Number
96327462
Authors
Crang-Svalenius E. Dykes AK. Jorgensen C.
Institution
Lund University Hospital, Lund; Sweden.
Country of Publication
United States of America
Title
Organized routine ultrasound in the second trimester - One hundred
women's experiences.
Source
Journal of Maternal-Fetal Investigation. Vol 6(4) (pp 219-222), 1996.
Subject Headings
*Ultrasound
*Third Trimester Pregnancy
Fetus Monitoring
Health Center
Congenital Malformation/cn [Congenital Disorder]
Congenital Malformation/di [Diagnosis]
Interview
Patient Attitude
Medical Information
Comprehension
Prenatal Care
Human
Female
Major Clinical Study
Normal Human
Adolescent
Adult
Article
Priority Journal
Abstract
Objective: To study the information pregnant women recalled about the
option of having an ultrasound examination performed during the second
trimester and the fact that malformations can be detected and to see
if this caused apprehension in a low-risk population. Methods:
Standardized semistructured interviews with 100 (50 nullipara and 50
parous) women immediately after they had a second trimester ultrasound
examination performed. Results: Very few women felt that the verbal
information given at the antenatal clinic fully clarified the
intentions of an ultrasound examination whereas the majority thought
that the written information received before the ultrasound was
satisfactory. Less than half of the women recalled that they had been
given professional information about the possibility that
malformations could be detected, and a third could not recall having
been given this information from any source. Sixty-two women thought
that an ultrasound examination was a compulsory part of their
antenatal care. Over two-thirds of the women were very or slightly
apprehensive about adverse findings before the examination was
performed. Nearly all women were satisfied with the information given
during and after the examination and felt better afterward.
Conclusion: These women were not informed satisfactorily about the
aims and options of a second trimester ultrasound examination. It is
important to give complete information and to make sure it is
understood by the women in order to preserve their autonomy.
EMTAGS
pregnancy (0030). diagnosis (0140). therapy (0160). congenital
disorder (0315). methodology (0130). mammal (0738). human (0888).
female (0042). major clinical study (0150). normal human (0800).
adolescent (0017). adult (0018). article (0060). priority
journal (0007)
ISSN
0939-6322
Coden
JMFIE
Language
English
Publication Type
Journal
Entry Week
9646
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