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Published in final edited form as: Methods Inf Med. 2016 Jun 28;55(4):322–332. doi: 10.3414/ME15-01-0154

Table 3. Methods for Identifying CAM Information from Internet Resources.

The number of articles associated with each method is shown, with specific citations in parentheses.

Method	Theme 1	Theme 2	Theme 3	Theme 4	Theme 5	Theme 6	Theme 7
Descriptive Statistics	2^(28–29)	7^{(30–35, 37)}			5^{(30, 35, 51, 52,56)}	2^{(79, 90)}	3^{(9, 108–109)}
Behavioral Modeling		1⁽³⁰⁾			1⁽³⁰⁾
Logistic Regression		1⁽³⁶⁾			1⁽⁵⁴⁾
Correlation Analysis		1⁽³⁷⁾
Infodemiology			3^(38–40)		1⁽⁵⁷⁾
Patient Simulation			1⁽⁴²⁾
Context/ Thematic Analysis				2^{(27, 44)}
Patient Simulation			1⁽⁴²⁾
Vocabulary and Concept Analysis				3^(47–49)
Online Search						2^{(24, 80)}	1⁽¹⁰⁶⁾
Content Correctness Determination						3^(81–83)
Information Quality Assessment						14^{(24, 60, 84–89, 94–99)}
Compliance and Claims Data Analysis						3^{(72, 80, 103)}	2^{(104, 105)}
Pharmacovigilance							2^{(9, 107)}