Helping users keep up to date with the latest evidence is difficult and our latest project is our attempt to help. Starting with primary care we’ve released a ‘digest’ with summaries of the latest relevant evidence. To see the digest click here.

Here’s how it works:

  • We take a long list of articles we tag as ‘primary care’ as part of our regular updating of the evidence.
  • The long list is sent to an experienced clinician who specialises in primary care (in this case Chris, the general practitioner, who is the medical director of Trip) who selects around 20 articles he feels are most relevant and newsworthy.
  • These are then fed into an LLM with a prompt to summarise and give a clinical bottom line.
  • We then ask the LLM to write an editorial based on the included documents.
  • Finally the digest is published.

This approach is semi-automatic but it could feasibly be fully-automatic, and we’ll investigate that if the digest proves popular. If it does we’ll also expand into other clinical areas and, who knows, one day produce personalised digests.

Please take a look – click here – and let us know what you think.