tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.comments2009-11-02T14:11:07.443ZJon Brasseynoreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-39065706203335796042009-11-02T13:27:28.731Z2009-11-02T13:27:28.731ZOn my Nokia E71 it does not work without scrolling and there are some error on the results page. Without pictures it looks even worse.<br />Opera Mini (V5 beta) looks much better.Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078597404766627102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-22338718670829392312009-10-25T05:28:12.554Z2009-10-25T05:28:12.554ZHi Jon<br /><br />It is a great idea, and could (in time) propel the already-illustrious TRIP into the stratosphere.<br /><br />Engaging the interest of the participatory medicine movement (patientslikeme, Journal of Participatory Medicine, Expert Patients Programme as a trifecta to punt on) might be a great place to startAndrew Sponghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978439990983958861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-39106753110327849332009-10-22T13:44:22.642Z2009-10-22T13:44:22.642ZI think is a nice idea. A social network of &quot;seekers like me&quot; in a specific question. Like when you are searching a specific query in Google and you have related items next to you.<br />As an example, I am looking for information about BCG vaccine complications treatments in HIV patients. I use all of the recommended by the Cochrane group of librarians but when it comes to look for experts in the field and their ongoing plans or trials, this tool/idea would be nice to have. Hope to hear more soon.<br /><br />Best wishesCarlos Cuellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03308278218783774973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-91631386831065644672009-10-22T08:07:12.201Z2009-10-22T08:07:12.201ZSorry Martin, it stands for Continuing Professional Development. Given the length of the phrase you can see why I&#39;m tempted to use CPD!Jon Brasseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806770135616938391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-85432304746936857712009-10-21T09:14:03.009Z2009-10-21T09:14:03.009ZIs the therm CPD commonly known? (as a non-native speaker, I did not know - and if I weren&#39;t curious, I&#39;d never have clicked it...) Besides, this slideshow is helpful (much better than a lengthy video)Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078597404766627102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-25150991084336184412009-10-15T07:17:21.335Z2009-10-15T07:17:21.335ZI&#39;d like to have more features like MyNCBI, especially collections (bookmarks of interesting articles within TRIP)Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078597404766627102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-54782286724187673542009-10-07T09:07:29.996Z2009-10-07T09:07:29.996ZHi Martin,<br /><br />CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. Thanks for the tip about RIS, will pass that to our techie. I&#39;ll also investigate a better SR filter.<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />jonJon Brasseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806770135616938391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-17184886972982175262009-10-07T08:27:05.927Z2009-10-07T08:27:05.927ZI&#39;ve just used TRIP in a real case (&quot;Do patients with lewy-body dementia profit exceptionally from exelon?&quot; -&gt; search &quot;rivastigmine lewy&quot;) and it worked like a charm. I really like the preview without leaving TRIP. What das CPD mean? I like this feature. I don&#39;t see much use in the current CVS-export; please implement a RIS-export. Another small note: Pubmed &quot;systematic review&quot; does in fact use the &quot;systematic&quot;-subset, which includes more than SRs. I suggest using a real SR methodology filter (e.g. from MONTORI et.al).<br />My bottomline: good work!Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078597404766627102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-341127930133540102009-09-29T18:00:58.032Z2009-09-29T18:00:58.032ZWaiting for the news... impatientsomosmedicina.comhttp://www.somosmedicina.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-21465717101526129112009-09-23T12:01:32.923Z2009-09-23T12:01:32.923Zte to tell you, I don&#39;t think the old site is working properly now. Yesterday I got 70 review hits for a particular search strategy, today it is sixEPHRU Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11990908774509908504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-69926994272751386052009-09-10T10:02:00.723Z2009-09-10T10:02:00.723ZHi Jon, <br /><br />I&#39;m looking forward to the launch of the new TRIP. The quality slider looks very fancy, but I must say that I always tell my students and patrons to use the highest evidence only (green) and walk through the categories.<br /><br />But still it may be handy for those not realizing that the sources are grouped according to level of evidence and who are scared off by finding 1000 e-medicine hits ;)<br /><br />JacquelineLaikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02438218212450731942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-25598118265728385442009-09-03T18:41:13.372Z2009-09-03T18:41:13.372ZI really like it. The design is more contemporary. I see what some people are saying about the web 2.0 style but that is what people love at the moment.Mattyhttp://new-logo.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-24600662358405726062009-08-25T05:50:00.092Z2009-08-25T05:50:00.092ZHi Carlos,<br /><br />Thanks for the input.<br /><br />I agree, to a point, about the best interventions are no different. However, for many situations, the best evidence is impractical. For instance in a resource poor setting there is no practical benefit of suggesting and MRI scan for knee problems. Another example might be in any condition where the latest drugs are still &#39;in patent&#39; and generally unaffordable.<br /><br />From a users perspective they can come to TRIP carry out a normal search and if they feel that the results are not applicable as the interventions are not approrpiate they can restrict the search to resource poor settings. <br /><br />Ultimately, this is optional and the user can decide.<br /><br />You mention access, I was thinking that we could take this idea further and possibly work with HINARI in some way. They grant free access to lots of content (including Cochrane, Lancet, BMJ, JAMA etc) but again there is lots of content not suitable for resource poor settings. Could we combine our data (of content suitable for resource poor settings) with HINARI to produce a database of full-text content that could be searchable over the internet or distributed via a pen/flash drive?<br /><br />Best wishes<br /><br />jonJon Brasseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806770135616938391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-3303222884354078332009-08-24T20:13:49.511Z2009-08-24T20:13:49.511ZHi, Jon<br /><br />I think this is a really important issue. However, what I have seen (we in Mexico have the &quot;best&quot; from both, rich and poor worlds) is that the interventions that works in the &quot;poor&quot; usually are the same on the &quot;rich&quot; nations. What it is different are the diseases and conditions. As an example I could mention malaria, dengue, Chagas, etc. These conditions are more prevalent in the developing world, indeed, but the &quot;valid&quot; articles citing interventions for these conditions are in the Lancet, JAMA, NEJM, which are not free for the doctors seeing these terrible diseases. Perhaps I am wrong, I do not have the evidence (yet) but if I can´t find it, you just give me another thesis dissertation idea!<br />We should &quot;mind the gap&quot; instead and try to allocate resources equally. I know it is utopic and it looks like I am talking about money, but I am talking about free access to the poor, free access to information. What my students from poor areas asked me is usually the access to high ranking journals.<br />I think your idea is great and should be leveled on to other to follow the examplo of PlOS, BMC journals and the BMJ.<br /><br />Best wishesCarlos Cuellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03308278218783774973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-81755900570077286492009-08-24T20:11:55.973Z2009-08-24T20:11:55.973ZHi Jordi,<br /><br />I doubt very much that it will identify all the pertinent material, but that&#39;s not the main motivation. We&#39;re simply hoping to identify a significant amount of the material to make it a usable resource.<br /><br />We&#39;re also keen to be transparent so people can choose to use it if they wish.<br /><br />With regard to who will be motivated we&#39;re working on the web 2.0 principle of 90, 9 &amp; 1. 90% won&#39;t get involved, 10% will loosely engage and make occasional contributions while 1% will actively contribute. With 30,000 users per day 1% would see lots of contributions.<br /><br />The 2nd and 3rd tag will not delay things. If a user selects the &#39;only show articles that have been tagged as being suitable for resource poor settings&#39; it will show all articles tagged. However, those with only 1 or 2 &#39;tags&#39; will be clearly labelled as &#39;pending&#39;.<br /><br />With regard your latter point - have you any examples?<br /><br />Best wishes<br /><br />jon<br /><br /> as even with one tag the record will beJon Brasseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806770135616938391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-35891650452731982312009-08-24T18:50:11.719Z2009-08-24T18:50:11.719ZThat&#39;s a really important problem, and looking for a &quot;crowdsourcing&quot; strategy is an interesting solution. However, it has an important problem: -the motivation to look for tag material when the project starts (as you can miss relevant information if you do it)<br />- The motivation for tagging: who is going to volunteer when starting? The idea of requesting a second tag sounds promising but it will also delay the selection of relevant material. <br /><br />Why do not look in sources that have been selected as relevant in resource poor settings?<br />Jordi Pardo<br />Iberoamerican CentreJordihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01357782326996120635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-23470435271938788172009-08-24T08:18:45.367Z2009-08-24T08:18:45.367ZYou&#39;ll have the flexibility!<br /><br />One thing that you&#39;ll notice is that it allows you to build an advanced search from the actual homepage. The advanced search basically allows the easy construction of complex searches. For experienced users they&#39;ll be able to build complex boolean searches (with restrictions for title field only etc) from the homepage.Jon Brasseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806770135616938391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-89685183309329696702009-08-24T07:55:38.813Z2009-08-24T07:55:38.813Zthough i already liked the old logo, i like the new one, too.<br />the new interface looks slick - are the field AND-ed?Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078597404766627102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-54544539675711912382009-07-27T09:52:02.088Z2009-07-27T09:52:02.088Zits actually all collated now on this site:<br /><br />pandemicflu.bmj.com<br /><br />and our feedback email is <br /><br />feedback.pandemic@bmjgroup.com <br /><br />for any comments and suggestions about what more we should be doing. Thanks!BMJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070855940340429279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-86687226653605203192009-07-23T12:25:13.958Z2009-07-23T12:25:13.958Zfrom a purely egoistical perspective: they would just distract me. I would separate information for professionals and consumers. Maybe a a different site www.trip-patients.com or a the level of the entry page: why not have to search buttons: &quot;search for health care professionals&quot; and &quot;search for patients and customers&quot;? (well, I&#39;m not shure is doing both is a good idea - users will probably search with different keywords...). The lesson from the people at my deparment who do drug consulations for doctors for a long time is not to consult patients: different questions, different language, different information need, potential conflicts)Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078597404766627102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-90497989744353620692009-06-22T07:28:53.848Z2009-06-22T07:28:53.848ZThe geo-location trick will work fine and i really like the idea. I propose that you have a 2-stage process: 1. continent-level, 2. country-level (being from germany, I know that I won&#39;t find german content in TRIP - but I might prefer european to american guidelines...)<br /><br />How do you indentify specialists without user interaction?Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078597404766627102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-46461008516581088012009-06-19T14:07:41.836Z2009-06-19T14:07:41.836ZI think 140 char. are just not enough room for thoughts. And twittering (at least in me) provokes some sense of urgency - whil discussiing a paper takes some time to think/read/search.<br />I would forget it...Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078597404766627102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-60414661453159997012009-06-15T17:20:02.849Z2009-06-15T17:20:02.849ZCongratulations on all that by the way. I&#39;ve learned loads from your sites.<br /><br />JoJohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150960025351599805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-34922111729701304492009-06-02T11:30:58.610Z2009-06-02T11:30:58.610ZHi Jo,<br /><br />That was quick!<br /><br />I'm guessing the difference was due to you going from the UK and using the UK interface. The results you highlight for diabetes question are great in Bing, certainly better than google!Jon Brasseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806770135616938391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22763131.post-68683289747270290032009-06-02T11:26:01.362Z2009-06-02T11:26:01.362ZOh so *that's* what Bing is ;) <br /><br />It's come to something when I feel I'm behind the curve on a product that's two days old hehe. I did wonder what the Twitterians were on about with things binging up all over the place.<br /><br />The Bing results I got were quite different from yours actually, and on my results I'd have probably let Bing win, although I think the hits were overall the same (just reordered).<br /><br />These were the top two for Bing<br /><br /><B>Diabetes-type 2 - Treatment </B>Unlike some other medicines that are used to treat type 2 diabetes, metformin should not cause additional weight gain. However, it can sometimes cause mild side effects, such as ... <br />www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Diabetes-type2/Pages/Treatment.aspx<br /><br /><B>Clinical topic - Diabetes Type 2...Metformin </B>Evidence from the UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) (a trial specifically designed to determine the effects of tight glycaemic control on diabetes-related morbidity and ... <br />www.cks.library.nhs.uk/diabetes_type_2/evidence/supporting_evidence/hypoglycaemic_drugs/... <br /><br />Jo<br />(who now knows what Bing is and will probably use it in addition to Google)<br />P.S. Word verification is "fingo" !Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150960025351599805noreply@blogger.com