Table 1 Academic Database Search Strategies Informing the Development of an Operational Definition of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine, Executed August 25, 2020

Ovid Database (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and AMED)

Database: AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) < 1985 to August 2020 > , Embase < 1974 to 2020 August 24 > , APA PsycInfo < 1806 to August Week 3 2020 > , Ovid MEDLINE(R) and Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Daily and Versions(R) < 1946 to August 24, 2020 > 

Search Strategy:

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1 ((Alternative or Complementary or Integrat*) adj5 (Therap* or Medicine*)).ti. (39,659)

2 (Character* or Definition* or Delineat* or Expla* or Interpret* or Meaning* or Term*).ti. (2,380,379)

3 1 and 2 (610)

4 limit 3 to english language (527)

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Scopus Database

TITLE(((Alternative or Complementary or Integrat*) W/5 (Therap* or Medicine*)) AND (Character* or Definition* or Delineat* or Expla* or Interpret* or Meaning* or Term*)) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( LANGUAGE,"English"))

Web of Science Database

TITLE: (((Alternative or Complementary or Integrat*) NEAR/5 (Therap* or Medicine*))) AND TITLE: ((Character* or Definition* or Delineat* or Expla* or Interpret* or Meaning* or Term*)) AND LANGUAGE: (English)

Indexes = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, BKCI-S, BKCI-SSH, ESCI, CCR-EXPANDED, IC Timespan = All years