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Table 3 Databases searched in the randomly selected 100 meta-analyses (in decreasing frequency)

From: An assessment of the quality of current clinical meta-analyses

Database searched

Number of Papers (%)

EMBASE

67 (67)

MEDLINE

59 (59)

PubMed

54 (54)

Cochrane Library

44 (44)

Web of Science

22 (22)

SCOPUS

16 (16)

CINAHL

11 (11)

PsycINFO

10 (10)

Clinicaltrials.gov

10 (10)

LILACS

3 (3)

AMED

2 (2)

BIOSIS

2 (2)

EBSCO

1 (1)

TOXNET

1 (1)

Google Scholar

1 (1)

HMIC

1 (1)