2024 Ovid Emcare (EMCA) Database Reload News
Ovid Emcare database has been reloaded to implement the 2024.01 Thesaurus Tool.
Changes in the new thesaurus:
Emtree Terms Added in January 2024:
1333 new terms (including 44 replacement terms and promoted synonyms) have been added to Emtree as preferred terms in version January 2024:
- 321 drug terms (terms assigned to the Chemicals and Drugs facet).
- 1012 non-drug terms (terms not assigned as Chemicals and Drugs).
Emtree Terms Changed in January 2024:
- 44 terms (21 drug terms and 23 non-drug terms) from Emtree September 2023 have been replaced by 39 different terms in January 2024 (20 drug terms and
19 non-drug terms).
- Of these, 35 terms (18 drug terms and 17 non-drug terms) are new (e.g. new generic names for drug chemical names) and have been assigned creation date 2024; the remaining 4 replacement terms (2 drug terms and 2 non-drug terms) were already present in Emtree.
- No drug terms were replaced by a non-drug term, No non-drug terms were replaced by a drug term. No preferred terms were deleted.
Complete details on changes of the new thesaurus are available here:
In addition, Ovid has made the following changes to the database:
New Fields
- Floating Subheading (FS)
- Floating Subheading Word (FX)
- Device Index Terms (MV)
- Device Index Terms Word(MY)
- Drug Index Terms (DU)
- Drug Index Terms Word (DY)
- Candidate Terms(DJ)
- Candidate Term Word (DQ)
- Other Index Terms (OD)
- Other Index Terms Word (OX)
- PMID (PM)
New Tool Functionality
If you have any questions, contact your Ovid Support Representative at [email protected].
Reload News last updated September 07, 2024