Searching literature is one of the most important elements of a systematic review. A well planned search strategy in the right databases ensures you have a robust list of results to whittle down as...
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Embase vs MEDLINE: FAQ
Whether you're conducting a systematic review literature search or screening literature for drug safety, Embase and MEDLINE are key databases for these workflows. However, despite their ubiquity, we...
Seeing double: eliminating duplicate references in drug safety literature screening
Drug safety literature screening for patient safety issues is not easy an easy process. As we saw in our post on keeping literature monitoring searches up to date, it can be hugely time-consuming...
Staying alert: how to easily update search alerts for drug safety literature monitoring
If it isn’t documented, it doesn’t exist. As far as regulators are concerned, this is true for any of the drug safety literature monitoring search alerts that a marketing authorisation holder (MAH)...
[VIDEO] How to deploy resources effectively in pharmacovigilance literature monitoring
When it comes to identifying patient safety issues relating to drugs, scientific and medical literature is a crucial resource. Get pharmacovigilance literature monitoring wrong, and you could draw...
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How our end-to-end pharmacovigilance literature monitoring works [VIDEO]
At Dialog Solutions, we work with some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies to deliver modular, end-to-end medical literature monitoring for pharmacovigilance. What’s more, we’re the only...
How to make EU MDR CER literature reviews more efficient
In our first post on literature reviews for medical device clinical evaluation reports (CERs), we looked at the importance of multiple databases and using refined, comprehensive search strategies to...
EU MDR Literature Reviews – best practice for database selection and search strategies
The EU’s Medical Device Regulation (MDR) 2017/745 raises the bar for device manufacturers looking to stay compliant. With its introduction into law now postponed to May 2021, device manufacturers...
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Want Faster and More Efficient Patentability Searches? Here’s How [Free Webinar]
Patent attorneys need to search through vast amounts of content when performing patentability (novelty) searches. This research is most effective at identifying novelty when all types of prior art...
