From: Are systematic reviews up-to-date at the time of publication?
Category | Name of database | Count (%) |
---|---|---|
Critically-appraised databases | Cochrane library | 228 (76.0%) |
DARE | 14 (4.7%) | |
CENTRAL | 101 (33.7%) | |
PEDro | 7 (2.3%) | |
Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA) | 6 (2.0%) | |
Indexing and abstracting databases | MEDLINE | 236 (78.9%) |
EMBASE | 190 (63.5%) | |
PubMed | 86 (28.7%) | |
CINAHL | 52 (17.4%) | |
PsycINFO | 24 (8.1%) | |
ERIC | 12 (4.0%) | |
LILACS | 12 (4.0%) | |
AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine | 15 (5.0%) | |
HealthSTAR | 6 (2.0%) | |
BIOSIS | 6 (2.0%) | |
Chinese/ China Biological Medicine Database | 5 (1.7%) | |
Citation searching | Scopus | 16 (5.4%) |
ISI Web of Science | 8 (2.7%) | |
Trials registry | National Research Register | 10 (3.3%) |
Clinicaltrials.gov | 9 (3.0%) | |
FDA Repository | 3 (1.0%) | |
Online full-text journals | BioMed Central | 4 (1.3%) |
Web search | Google Scholar | 8 (2.7%) |
Hand searching | Conference proceedings | 6 (2.0%) |