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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 858246, 9 pages doi:10.1093/ecam/nep038 Original Article Searching for Controlled Trials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Comparison of 15 Databases Elise Cogo,1, 2 Margaret Sampson,1, 3 Isola Ajiferuke,2 Eric Manheimer,4 Kaitryn Campbell,5 Raymond Daniel,1 and David Moher6, 7 1 Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada 2 Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada 3 Department of Information Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK 4 Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 5 Program for Assessment of Technology in Health, McMaster University, St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Canada 6 Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Canada 7 Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Correspondence should be addressed to Margaret Sampson, msampson@cheo.on.ca Received 31 July 2007; Accepted 7 April 2009 Copyright © 2011 Elise Cogo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This project aims to assess the utility of bibliographic databases beyond the three major ones (MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane CENTRAL) for finding controlled trials of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Fifteen databases were searched to identify controlled clinical trials (CCTs) of CAM not also indexed in MEDLINE. Searches were conducted in May 2006 using the revised Coc