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As far as a I know, there are no published studies available to answer that question beyond the obvious - you are missing some. It isn't just the actual titles indexed but also how well an interface to a database works in helping one retrieve what is indexed in it. And also the search methods one uses to locate the RCTs. Not all RCTs are actually indexed as such in Medline or any database for that matter. There are some published studies that show that each database doesn't cover everything. The first one listed below might be the most informative but it is behind a paywall for me. 

Suarez-Almazor, M. E., E. Belseck, J. Homik, M. Dorgan, and C. Ramos-Remus. 2000. Identifying clinical trials in the medical literature with electronic databases: MEDLINE alone is not enough. Controlled Clinical Trials 21 (5):476–87. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11018564

Gavel, Y., and L. Iselid. 2008. Web of Science and Scopus: A journal title overlap study. Online Information Review 32 (1):8–21. http://tinyurl.com/ldbtlkr

Svetla Baykoucheva (2010): Selecting a Database for Drug Literature Retrieval: A Comparison of MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Science, Science & Technology Libraries, 29:4, 276-288 http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/11411/1/BaykouchevaMedlineScopusWoS.pdf

Jacso, P. 2005. As we may search—Comparison of major features of the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar citation-based and citation-enhanced databases. Current Science 89 (9):1537–47. 

Falagas, M. E., E. I. Pitsouni, G. A. Malietzis, and G. Pappas. 2008. Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: Strengths and weaknesses. FASEB Journal 22 (2):338–42. http://www.fasebj.org/content/22/2/338.full.pdf+html

Comparison of journal title coverage between CINAHL and Scopus. Barbarie Hill, MA, AHIP http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759162/pdf/mlab-97-04-313.pdf






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On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Dr. Cawthorpe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Another issue underpinning the assumptions of the proposition.

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

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> On Apr 8, 2015, at 5:50, Gerd Antes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Proportion of what? Of all initiated or all completed RCTs? That makes huge differences because it is
> moving the denominator into different orders of magnitude. Remember that 50% of all trials are not published.
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> It is certainly far less than 80 - 90 %.
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> Best wishes   Gerd
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>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:07:17PM +0100, Jon Brassey wrote:
>>   Hi All,
>>   Any idea what proportion of published RCTs appear in Medline?  I'm
>>   guessing it's around 80-90% but would like to know if there are any
>>   references out there?
>>   Best wishes
>>   jon
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