DistillerSR + Embase Integration
Integrating Best-in-class Platforms to Accelerate Literature Reviews
The DistillerSR + Embase integration eliminates inefficiencies, reduces risk, and enables more accurate evidence generation – driving richer evidence-based insights, greater auditability for regulatory submissions, and faster time to revenue.
Efficiency
Gains
Search, import, and enrich Embase references directly in DistillerSR. Scheduled imports ensure reviews are always up-to-date.
Enhanced Data Quality
Leverage the full Embase citation and abstract, including native search strings and persistent unique identifiers. Maintain consistent metadata and robust version control for data integrity.
Comprehensive
Access a comprehensive and up-to-date database, trusted by regulators. Includes biomedical literature, conference abstracts, clinical trials and information not available in MEDLINE.
Copyright Compliant
The Embase digital-based license (DaaS) allows organizations to fully leverage and apply AI to different evidence synthesis use cases while remaining copyright compliant.
FAQ DistillerSR + Embase Integration
What are the primary benefits of the DistillerSR and Embase integration for literature review workflows?
The integration enables direct Embase search and import capabilities within the DistillerSR software, accelerating literature reviews.
Key benefits include:
- The comprehensiveness of the Embase database that regulators view as a premier literature source. Includes 99% of journals in MEDLINE plus more than 3,000 additional journals and more than 16,000 conferences.
- Efficiency gains from eliminating manual file imports and ensuring reviews are always up-to-date via scheduled imports.
- Enhanced data quality with consistent metadata, unique identifiers and robust version control.
- Full auditability and traceability by maintaining a complete audit trail from initial search string though final inclusion to data extraction.
- Copyright compliance via the Embase DaaS license.
What specific Embase license is required to utilize the full functionality of this integration?
The required license is an Embase Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) subscription. This DaaS license provides the necessary programmatic access (via API) to the Embase content, which is essential for enabling the AI-enabled workflows and ensuring copyright compliance.
What specific DistillerSR subscription is required to utilize the full functionality of this integration?
DistillerSR customers with Professional or Enterprise subscriptions are able to use the integration at no additional cost.
How does the integration ensure regulatory compliance and data integrity?
The integration enhances data quality by leveraging the full Embase citation, abstract, native search strings, and persistent unique identifiers, which ensures consistent metadata and robust version controls. It also provides a complete audit trail for every decision (search string, inclusion, exclusion, extraction) within DistillerSR, making the evidence and regulatory submissions audit-ready and defensible.
Can the references imported from both Embase and other sources be automatically deduplicated in DistillerSR?
Yes. The DistillerSR platform automatically deduplicates references from various sources, including Embase and PubMed, before the start of screening. This process ensures a clean dataset and compares fields such as title, author, and abstract, and can also use unique identifiers or DOIs.
What AI tools within DistillerSR are used to accelerate the screening and data extraction process?
DistillerSR uses both deterministic and generative AI enabled capabilities throughtout its workflow. AI Classifiers automatically categorize and label literature based on criteria like study type; AI Rerank reprioritize references by relevance, serving the most relevant first which accelerates the screening process; and Smart Evidence Extraction (using purpose-built GenAI) finds, suggests and links answers to questions in data extraction forms, which is then validated by a human-in-the-loop for regulatory compliance.
Does the Embase integration include access to the full text of articles?
Embase itself does not host the full text; it provides comprehensive citations and abstracts. DistillerSR facilitates easy access to open source articles, users can also use separate subscriptions (such as the DistillerSR integration with RightFind or ScienceDirect or internal libraries) to automatically import the full text into DistillerSR for full-text screening and data extraction.