Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are increasingly important complications of which clinicians should have an up-to-date knowledge to facilitate prompt recognition, diagnosis and management. These disorders affect a growing number of pregnancies worldwide, with incidence rates likely to increase in the future commensurate with increasing maternal age and maternal comorbidities independent of ...

BACKGROUND Economic evaluations in the medical literature compare competing diagnosis or treatment methods for their use of resources and their expected outcomes. The best evidence currently available from research regarding both cost and economic comparisons will continue to expand as this type of information becomes more important in today's clinical practice. Researchers and clinicians need ...

Health research in the Syrian Arab Republic faces many difficulties, including limited funds, infrastructure and means of dissemination. In a search of Medline and Embase databases in March 2006 we extracted data on 386 biomedical papers originating from the Syrian Arab Republic. Embase had the superior coverage. A total of 64% were published in journals from Europe, 22% from North American jou...

BACKGROUND Accurate diagnosis by clinicians is the cornerstone of decision making for recommending clinical interventions. The current best evidence from research concerning diagnostic tests changes unpredictably as science advances. Both clinicians and researchers need dependable access to published evidence concerning diagnostic accuracy. Bibliographic databases such as EMBASE provide the mos...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews often investigate the effectiveness of interventions for one sex. However, identifying interventions with data presented according to the sex of study participants can be challenging due to suboptimal indexing in bibliographic databases and poor reporting in titles and abstracts. The purposes of this study were to develop a highly sensitive search filter to identif...

A Medline/Embase search was undertaken from 1980 to July 2016 using the following key words; Osteoporotic vertebral fracture; neoplastic vertebral fractures; chemical shift {in-phase and out-of phase} MR imaging; diffusion weighted sequence and combinations thereof. Only articles related to chemical shift MRI and diffusion weighted MR imaging of the spine were recruited. Details of all the stud...

Objetivo: Analizar la evolución de producción científica sobre Servicios Atención Salud a Domicilio indizada en las bases datos bibliográficas MEDLINE y Embase. Método: Estudio descriptivo transversal. Los se obtuvieron MEDLIEN Embase, interrogando mediante los descriptores “Home Care Services” Care” según base interrogar. El periodo estudiado fue desde el inicio indización esta hasta 31 diciem...

BACKGROUND Clinical end users of EMBASE have a difficult time retrieving articles that are both scientifically sound and directly relevant to clinical practice. Search filters have been developed to assist end users in increasing the success of their searches. Many filters have been developed for the literature on therapy and reviews for use in MEDLINE, but little has been done for use in EMBAS...

BACKGROUND Clinical prediction guides assist clinicians by pointing to specific elements of the patient's clinical presentation that should be considered when forming a diagnosis, prognosis or judgment regarding treatment outcome. The numbers of validated clinical prediction guides are growing in the medical literature, but their retrieval from large biomedical databases remains problematic and...

Qualitative researchers address many issues relevant to patient health care. Their studies appear in an array of journals, making literature searching difficult. Large databases such as EMBASE provide a means of retrieving qualitative research, but these studies represent only a minuscule fraction of published articles, making electronic retrieval problematic. Little work has been done on devel...