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Latest evidence from Trip
At Trip we ingest thousands of new articles per month; hundreds of these are of the higher-quality evidence e.g. guidelines and systematic reviews. We have a ‘Latest’ feature that list these recent...
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A new LLM project idea: Trip Clinical Evidence Review
Trip adds loads of great evidence every month and this idea relates to better presenting this new evidence for users. We have a current way of doing this, which is to show it as a set of search...
View ArticleDisappointing guideline scores
Our guideline scoring system is nearly a year old and it’s been well received by all types of Trip users. Over time we add new guideline producers and these scores are added to the system. We are in...
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EMDA MMC – an example search
We’re undertaking a rapid review to answer the client’s question “Is there high-quality evidence to support the use of EMDA MMC in combination with BCG therapy for non-muscle invasive high-risk...
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Trip Clinical Evidence Review – a mock-up
We mentioned the possibility of a new LLM project improving the way we present the latest evidence to our users. In that post we mentioned asking our designer to mock something up and the first draft...
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A blast from the past – 1998
The Internet Archive is great and I found the first ‘grab’ of the Trip Database here. It lists the 25 publications we covered back then: Very few are still going, I think only these are still...
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Restricting results to a single publisher
A simple tip to help you get results from one publisher. To start with do a search, this is one for prostate cancer, and the results look like this (with snippets turned off): Note that the tope...
View ArticleSimple searches
One observation we’ve made over the years has been that many of the top searches (by frequency) are for single concepts e.g. asthma, diabetes, aspirin. This seems quite non-specific as the user...
View ArticleUnderstanding simple searches – poll
Our previous post highlighted the fact that many of our top searches are for single concepts e.g. asthma, pregnancy, aspirin. In some situations this sort of search is fine but in others it might be...
View ArticleMoving to the cloud
Since the start of 2024 the vast majority of our development time has been taken up with moving Trip onto ‘the cloud’. Currently we use a dedicated server, this has served us well but the server was...
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