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Searching for Controlled Trials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Comparison of 15 Databases
Table 4
Database costs and search interface features.
| | Cost | Truncation | Adjacency | Combine sets | Thesaurus or index | Limits | Phrase searching |
| Acubriefs | $200 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Acudoc2 RCT | Free | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | AGRICOLA | Free | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Alt HealthWatch | $200 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | AMED | $200 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | CAIRSS for Music | Free | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | CINAHL | $200 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Datadiwan | Free | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Global Health | $200 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Herb Research Foundation | Free | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Hom-Inform | Free | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | IBIDS | Free | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ICL | Free | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | MANTIS | $200 through Health Index | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | PsycINFO | $200 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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