Questions about complementary and alternative medicine to the Regional Medicines Information and Pharmacovigilance Centres in Norway (RELIS): a descriptive pilot study

Table 3 Search strategy and references in answers to questions (N = 100) about CAM to RELIS

Simple search^a(N = 59)		Advanced search^b(N = 41)
Previous answers from the RELIS database fraction %	Monographs and databases fraction %	Original articles fraction %	Additional information needed or not available fraction %
13/59 22.0	46/59 78.0	32/41 78.0	9/41 22.0

CAM = Complementary and alternative medicine; RELIS = Regional Medicines Information and Pharmacovigilance Centres in Norway.
^aSimple search includes the RELIS database, databases containing monographs like the Micromedex,Stockley’s Herbal Medicines Interactions, the summary of product characteristics (SPC) for a drug, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, reference books and/or colleagues/other health care professionals only.
^bAdvanced search include databases like Medline, Embase or Cochrane to obtain original articles if necessary or additional information needed or not available.

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