Latest version of the TRIP database launched

www.tripdatabase.com

The TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) Database is a UK clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to quickly find answers to their clinical questions using the best available evidence.  

TRIP offers a useful alternative to the NHS Evidence search engine.

TRIP is free to use and no passwords are required, but if you register you will have access to some additional functionality such as CPD, search history, and collaborative tools.

There are a number of new features including:

• Incorporating new content including medical education, and patient decision aids as well as enhanced content from social media and videos (now over 6,100)
• Clinical trials are now highlighted via a link to clinicaltrials.gov. If you go through to the site it shows the trials for your subject and what stage they have reached. There is a tab, "Results on map" which shows you where the trial has been conducted (and therefore which are UK trials).
• Clinical calculators related to the search terms are now displayed. 
• The ability to restrict the results to new research (from the last month) only.
• The site is significantly faster
• New results page design
• DOI (Digital object identifier) is displayed, this is to facilitate the identification of full-text articles.
• Translate introduced, allowing users to translate the search results and subsequent links into one of six languages (Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Welsh).  

You can find TRIP at: www.tripdatabase.com