2025 Evidence Based Medicine Reviews Reload Scheduled

Dear Evidence Based Medicine Reviews Customer,
 

The EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) database is being reloaded to implement the new full set of data and to enable AutoAlerts. We expect the reload to be live on 9 September 2025.  No AutoAlerts will run prior to the reload.

In addition, Ovid has made the following changes to the database:

New Fields

• Digital Object Identifier (DO)
• Author Email (AE)
• Revman Statistics (RZ)
• ISSN (IS)
• Date of Publication (DP)

Deleted Fields

• Date of Most Recent Amendment (DR)
• Date of Most Recent Substantive Amendment (DS)

New Limit

• Abstract

The Cochrane tab to browse Cochrane Groups is being removed. Group Name(GN) and Group Name Word(GW) remain available fields to search.

If you have any questions, your local Ovid representative will be glad to help. Feel free to reach out to your account representative or contact the team at [email protected].

Regards,

Wolters Kluwer - Ovid