Table 11

Cumulative effect of including additional databases on the number of publications retrieved from a sample of 356 housing and injury references that could be classified using STOX from their titles and abstracts

Cumulative % of papers found with evidence type S, T or O (n=287)Cumulative % of papers found with evidence type S, T, O or X (n=356)
Medical databases
Embase 54.4 50.8
Medline 77.0 71.9
CINAHL 82.6 78.9
HealthSTAR (non-Medline) 83.3 80.3
Social science databases
ISI Social Science Citation Index 90.6 89.3
Science databases
ISI Science Citation Index 94.1 92.4
Built environment databases
ICONDA 94.8 94.9
APID 95.1 95.1
Urbadisc/Accompline 95.8 96.2
Grey literature databases
SIGLE100.0100.0