Search strategies to identify reports on "off-label" drug use in EMBASE

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mesgarpour, Bita ^a   Müller, Markus ^a   Herkner, Harald ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

EMBASE; Information retrieval; MEDLINE; Off label use; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DRUG LABELING; DRUG THERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; SEARCH ENGINE;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DRUG LABELING; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; OFF-LABEL USE; SEARCH ENGINE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871552111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-190     Document Type: Article

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