The TRIP Evidence Reviews have been available via TRIP for a week or so and are already proving popular (they’ve been viewes a total of 264 times). There are currently 47 reviews and we’ll probably stop developing them in the near future, catch our breath, and see what happens.
Alongside the reviews we’re developing a CPD component, which is looking interesting!
Yahoo Pipes have been around for a while now. Unfortuantely, I’ve not had the time or inclination to dig around and see what they can do. I’ve now started using them and think they are potentially very powerful. I’m sure, at present, I’m using them crudely. In fact, I’ve so far, simply merged two separate RSS feeds – but it’s a start.
Take this old (2004) ATTRACT answer on exercise and depression. If you view that you’ll see that it has a warning “NOTE: The following question is over two years old. We do not routinely update our answers. Therefore, significant new research may now be available.”
I’ve always wondered about auto-updating of answered. Therefore, I created two separate searches in PubMed (with exercise and depression both as [majr] mesh headings), one for RCTs and one for systematic reviews (via clinical queries) and restricted the date to those articles published after the ATTRACT answer. I then exported the results as an RSS feed and joined them together in Yahoo Pipes. You can see the results here.
If this output was then tagged to the bottom of all appropriate Q&A answers they would, in effect, auto-update.
TRIP has been involved in medical and nursing education for a long time. Those with a long memory will remember our Virtual Learning Centre. Various pieces of work, married with our interests, has led us to a rather nice position. We’re currently working on a significant new area devoted to continuing professional development (CPD). We’re currently working through a number of formats and hope to have something for public consumption in the near future.
Exciting time!
I’ve recently seen a batch of new sites which have caught my attention:
David Rothman writes one of the best medical blogs, from an library/information perspective, that I know (click here). Due to his position as a forward-thinking type(!) I sent him the URL to the development version of the new TRIP (minus the comments section). Here are his, flattering, comments (click here).
The TRIP Evidence Reviews are going very well and we’re now approaching 40. I’m not sure when we’ll stop producing them, news ones I mean. My main concern is that, once produced, we have enough resource to update them. Some will need updating every 3-4 months while others will probably only need updating every 6-9 months. We have now added the first batch to TRIP and these tend to come at the top of the search results.
We are very pleased to announce the release of our new ‘product’ called TRIP Evidence Reviews. These are a series of reviews in specific topic areas. The reviews consist, principally, of a collection of links to recent research and guidance in an area. We see these as an educational tool, providing an easy method of updating oneself on new research and thinking in a particular topic area.
For more information see our TRIP Evidence Reviews blog.
Spotted by Sir Iain Chalmers, who generously sent me a copy. It was included in the article Under pressure.
We like to experiment with new formats for the information we come across. Due to our involvement with post-graduate CME work, we’ve happened across a format we quite like! As part of our work we’ve been asked to produce a number of ‘evidence reviews’ around specific topic areas. If you view the examples below you’ll see what we mean. I think we will be producing a significant number of these…
As well as our manual uploading of new material there are a number of dynamic (and pseudo-dynamic elements):
Feel free to comment….
I was reviewing a number of e-mails we’d received recently. Shortly afterwards Google announced their Google Maps venture. This allows users to easily create custom maps. Putting two and two together I got TRIP around the world, which is simply a list of contacts we’ve received since March 2007. Click here to view the map.
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