Use Drug Link Subheadings in EMBASE®?
TOPIC: Biomedical information professionals often get questions about drug administration and dosage. These questions have two aspects.
- How can I find citations about the route of administration and/or drug dosage, including the relationship between dosage and its effects over time?
- How can I find articles about a specific route of administration of a specific drug?
EMBASE® (File 72) indexing makes it easy to get timely and accurate answers. You can quickly find abstracts where the route of administration and dosage issues are significant parts of the article, and you can link particular routes of drug administration to a specific drug and make it a major descriptor term. For details and search aids on using EMTREE click here. For a list of EMTREE routes of administration subheading links click here.
In this application you will search for articles about drug administration and dosage of Lipitor® and link directly to records about oral administration of this drug. You will use EXPAND and SELECT to do this.
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 72
EXPAND (LIPITOR)
EXPAND ATORVASTATIN
SELECT E7 OR E13
SELECT S1/MAJ,HUMAN,ENG
TYPE S2/8/1-3
TYPE S2/7/1
EXPAND ATORVASTATIN
SELECT E21/MAJ
TYPE S3/8/1-3
TYPE S3/7/2
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN File 72 to search EMBASE.
2. EXPAND the drug brand name. Use parentheses to get directly to the preferred term. “U” means Use this term. |
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3. EXPAND the preferred drug term to see the list of allowable subheadings.
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4. SELECT the desired E reference numbers.
5. SELECT Set 1 (S1) and restrict retrieval to major focus about human subjects in English language.
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6. TYPE a few records in Format 8 to view title, descriptors and publication year.
The asterisk (*) in front of the descriptor indicates that the term is a major focus of the article.
Note: Partial records shown. Other records omiitted from this display.
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7. TYPE a record in Format 7 to see the Bibliographic Citation and Abstract.
Note: Partial record shown.
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8. EXPAND the preferred drug term. In this section you want to find citations about a specific route of administration of the drug.
9. SELECT the desired E reference number and restrict retrieval to Major Descriptor /MAJ.
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10. TYPE a few records in Format 8.
Note: Partial records shown.
To select the appropriate record number, look at the numbers above each record, e.g. 3/8/2.
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11. TYPE desired records in Format 7, which provides the Bibliographic Citation and Abstract.
Note: A partial record is shown. |
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