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