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Healthcare is in the news every day. Moreover, the need for doctors and nurses continues to grow. Databases that contain information about biomedicine, pharmaceuticals and healthcare are key to understanding health needs throughout the world. Elsevier, known for its focus on excellent scientific, biomedical and drug information, has databases like Embase® and EMCare® on ProQuest Dialog. In the following Featured File of the Month overview, you will learn more about EMCare, what types of information it contains and how it can help you in your research.
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Let's take a look at EMCare, an ideal database for conducting nursing and allied healthcare searches that answer fundamental and complex biomedical, healthcare and pharmaceutical questions. ProQuest Dialog offers EMCare in its two largest industry categories—Healthcare and Pharmaceutical and Biomedical. In EMCare you can research neonatal care, occupational health, professional home nursing, coronary care, hospice care and other aspects of healthcare.
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Created by Elsivier, EMCare contains content not found in other nursing and allied health databases. A Full author abstract is provided for 75% of all articles. The database is indexed with Emtree terms from Elsevier's thesaurus with nearly 1,500 terms specific to nursing. EMCare covers 1995 to the present and is updated weekly.
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EMCare offers comprehensive coverage of a number of allied health issues including education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and health care economics, clinical medical and health care social work, emergency and critical care medicine and much more.
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EMCare meets the needs of biomedical researchers and nursing and other healthcare professionals. It is ideal for precisely locating information worldwide about a wide range of topics including best practice in pressure ulcer management, published sources of hygiene infections, treatment of stress disorders with psychotherapy and other topics important to the healthcare industry.
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EMCare currently contains approximately two million records. It retrieves content from a variety of different sources, among them: peer-reviewed published journals, including more than 100 core nursing titles selected by of Elsevier indexing experts and nursing professionals, trade publications and electronic-only titles.
A little more than half of the journals are shared with Embase. Relevant coverage from MEDLINE is included, and about 67% of CINAHL®, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, journals are included.
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The scope of this database is international and the literature of North and South America is the largest at 52%. Asia-Pacific represents about 6% and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa total 42%.
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The following example illustrates the type of information you can find in EMCare. This record from ProQuest Dialog shows the title, journal information and date at the top of the record. For example, this record describes spinal cord MR imaging in patients with multiple sclerosis in the detailed abstract. Links to full text and to additional titles by the authors of this article are just a click away.
You can preview the record in ProQuest Dialog by clicking a preview button on the title list before displaying the full record. Notice the translate link—click it and you can translate the text into any of 13 languages.
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The bottom of the record shows the indexing: title, linked authors, including the corresponding author and contact information, publication details and date of publication.
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As you can see, EMCare provides comprehensive information about nursing and allied health. To learn more about EMCare, review the ProSheet for ProQuest Dialog or the Bluesheet when searching legacy Dialog.
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This completes our overview of EMCare. We know you will find this comprehensive database helpful in many healthcare, biomedical and pharmaceutical scientific searches you conduct. Make it a priority to use when you need authoritative healthcare and biomedical information.
