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EMBASE

Guide to searching Embase, a biomedical database focused on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic sciences relevant to clinical medicine.

Using the Drug Form

This form is used for designing advanced searches specific to drugs.

  1. Limit your search to subheadings for adverse. Limit your search to subheadings for adverse, etc,. as well as “routes of drug administration”
  2. Easily add field codes for drug trade names and manufacturers.

Alternatively, use the Disease and Device forms to design advanced searches specific to diseases and devices using subheadings and fields to increase precision.