This is the second in our series comparing Trip to PubMed, the first can be seen here. Last time we explored prostate cancer screening, while this time it is for the search asthma diagnosis.

For Trip we used the default Pro search and for PubMed we will show the top 5 results for both their ‘Best match’ algorithm and ‘Most recent’.

TripPubMed Best MatchPubMed Most Recent
Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide Testing for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma: a Health Technology Assessment, Health Quality Ontario 2024Asthma: definitions and pathophysiology, Int Forum Allergy Rhinol 2015The Association Between Obesity and the Unified Airway in Children, Ear Nose Throat J 2024
Asthma Diagnosis, Education and Management, Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols in British Columbia 2023Advances in asthma: New understandings of asthma’s natural history, risk factors, underlying mechanisms, and clinical management, J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021Treatment of metastatic ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer: real-world outcomes in a single center study, Transl Lung Cancer Res 2024
The Saudi initiative for asthma – 2024 update: Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma in adults and children, Saudi Clinical Guidelines 2024Severe asthma: definition, diagnosis and treatment, Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2014Obesity at the age of 4-5 related to asthma diagnosis in later childhood: A longitudinal study using linked routinely collected data from Wales, Int J Popul Data Sci 2024
Enhancing GP direct access to diagnostic tests for patients with suspected chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, or heart failure, NHS England 2024Understanding the immunology of asthma: Pathophysiology, biomarkers, and treatments for asthma endotypes, Paediatr Respir Rev. 2020Today’s Problem Tomorrow’s Crisis: A Retrospective, Single-Centre Observational Study of Nonagenarians in the Emergency Department, Cureus 2024
Guideline update: Diagnosis and management of asthma in preschoolers, children and adults, Canadian Thoracic Society 2021Asthma diagnosis in infants and preschool children: a systematic review of clinical guidelines, Allergol Immunopathol (Madr). 2019Association of psychological problems for which help was sought with physical illness, Am J Prev Med 2024

We then took the top ten results for each of the three different searches and asked ChatGPT to compare the results exploring issues like clinical relevance, quality of the evidence and recency. ChatGPT’s response was:

Again, like last time, it’s pretty clear…