Original Article
Searching for Controlled Trials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Comparison of 15 Databases
Table 1
Database productivity from 100 most recent non-PubMed records (before screening).
| | N of journals indexed | Estimated N of non-PubMed journals indexed | N examined to get 100 non-PubMed records | Eligible per 100 (precision, %) | Timeframe for 100 non-PubMed records |
| Acudoc2 RCT | n/a | n/a | 160 | 100 | 2003–2004 | Acubriefs | 32 | 20 | 337 | 56 | 2005+ | AMED | 508 | 230 | 1520 | 41 | 2004+ | Hom-Inform | 53 | 43 | 373 | 30 | 1998–2003 | MANTIS | 1541 | 565 | 1082 | 29 | 2004+ | PsycINFO | 2056 | 1147 | 1015 | 27 | 2004+ | CINAHL | 1827 | 855 | 1490 | 25 | 2005+ | Global Health | 5701 | 3362 | 1303 | 19 | 2004+ | ICL | 44 | 39 | 221 | 14 | 2004+ | Alt HealthWatcha | 35 | 21 | 531 | 9 | 2004+ | CAIRSS for Music | 18 | 15 | n/a | 1 | n/a | AGRICOLA | 2241 | 1593 | 986 | 0 | n/a | Datadiwan | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0 | n/a | Herb Research Foundation | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0 | n/a | IBIDS | 5257 | 1208 | n/a | 0 | n/a |
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N indicates number; n/a indicates information not available.
aWe examined the peer-reviewed journals (PRJ subset) only.
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