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Nice review, or is that preview?

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.

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TRIP Evidence Reviews

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.

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TRIP in the FT

Spotted by Sir Iain Chalmers, who generously sent me a copy. It was included in the article Under pressure.

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TRIP Evidence Reviews

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):

  • The latest articles in Medline is powered by an RSS feed.
  • The news is powered by Google news.
  • At the foot of the page is the ability to do, easy, live searches of relevant material.

Feel free to comment….

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TRIP around the world

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.

If you want to feature then contact us via this form. As well as saying hello and where you’re from feel free to let us know your thoughts about TRIP. For instance how you use it, what you use it for, any improvements you’d like to see. Also, let us know if you’re happy to use your name or simply post it anonymously.

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PubMed reaches 17 million

On April 20, 2007, the number of citations in PubMed surpassed 17 million (see NLM technical bulletin.)

Interestingly, the TRIP paper “Using the Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database: how do clinicians really search?” was added on the 20th April. So there is a chance (albeit remote) that the TRIP paper was the 17 millionth!

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Interesting sites

A few sites that have caught my eye recently:

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TRIP in print

A while ago I worked with the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford) on an evaluation of TRIP**. The review was extremely helpful and TRIP benefitted greatly from it.

Anyway, the evaluation has been published in April’s Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) – Using the Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database: how do clinicians really search?

In the same edition of the JMLA, in their Electronic Resources Reviews, was a review of TRIP. This was very positive and the concluding paragraph reports:

“The TRIP database has come a long way from its conception. The reader may wish to consult a 2002 review of the database . The thought put into the design and improvements made to this resource prove that it is truly dedicated to the practice of evidence-based medicine.”

** Thinking about it, the actual evaluation was around two years ago and since then we’ve had one major upgrade and another one due – perhaps we need to think about having another one!

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Presentations

It’s always nice to be asked to give presentations, to talk about TRIP, Q&A and related topics. A recent invite came with many apologies as they weren’t sure who to contact, if it was appropriate to ask etc. I like to think of myself and TRIP as being very approachable! So, if you have an event and want me to present, just let me know via the Contact Us form on TRIP.

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