Table 1 Number of potentially relevant papers identified and number of these papers that were eligible by activity and databasea.
From: Factors associated with self-care activities among adults in the United Kingdom: a systematic review
Subject | Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) | Over-the-counter (OTC) medicine | Private care | Home blood pressure (BP) monitors | Self-tests | Totalb | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Database | Inc. | Total | Inc. | Total | Inc. | Total | Inc. | Total | Inc. | Total | Inc. | Total |
Medline | 16 | 64 | 8 | 37 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 28 | 106 |
Embase | 9 | 53 | 11 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 86 |
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature | 13 | 29 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 36 |
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts | 9 | 30 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 38 |
PsycINFO | 8 | 20 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 29 |
British Nursing Index | 4 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 35 |
Allied and Complementary Medicine Database | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
Sociological Abstracts | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
References of other papers | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
Grey literature | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Totalb | 30 | 135 | 15 | 62 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 49 | 206 |