Randomized controlled trials in pediatric complementary and alternative medicine: Where can they be found?

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Table 1 Databases, date ranges, and strategies used.

Database	Host	Date Range Searched	Strategy
Medline & Pre-Medline	Ovid Online	1966-Feb 2001	1*
Embase	Ovid Online	1988-June 2000	1
CINAHL	Ovid Online	1982-July 2000	1
Dissertation Abstracts	Ovid Online	1990-Feb 2000	1
CAB Health	Dialog	1973-March 2001	1
Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED)	Dialog	1985-March 2001	1
ExtraMED	Dialog	1992-March 2001	1
Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy (MANTIS)	Dialog	1880-March 2001	1
The Cochrane Library CCTR	Update Software (CD-ROM)	Issue 1, 2001	2**
AGRICOLA	Ovid Online	1975-Jan 2001	3***
NCCAM (now incorporated into PubMed)	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nccam/camonpubmed.html	1963–2000	3
BioMed Central	http://www.biomedcentral.com/	1991-Feb 2001	3
IBIDS – NIH Office of Dietary Supplements	http://ods.od.nih.gov/databases/ibids.html	Feb 2001	3

*Strategy 1: The main subject search of this strategy was based Cochrane Collaboration's Complementary Medicine Field subject search [9]. **Strategy 2: ((SR-COMPMED and CHILD*:ME) not (ADULT*:ME and ADOLESCENCE:ME)) ***Strategy 3: A combination of the following truncated or non-truncated terms with the appropriate syntax were used: randomized, controlled, child, pediatric, complementary medicine, and alternative medicine.

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