What's New refers to recent content additions and major changes to the website.
16th April 2008
Monthly update sees 508 new records added.
23rd March 2008
British Columbia Perinatal Health Program records re-indexed due to URL changes
16th March 2008
Monthly update sees 389 new records added.
24th February 2008
Over the weekend two significant new additions to TRIP have been added, the American Family Physician and BEST in Mental Health.
15th February 2008
Monthly update sees 457 new records added.
24th January 2008
Northern and Yorkshire Regional Drugs and Therapeutics Centre records re-indexed due to URL changes.
17th January 2008
Monthly update sees 504 new records added.
17th January 2008
ASERNIP-S records re-indexed due to site reformatting.
2nd January 2008
Centre for Evidence-based Purchasing records added.
16th December 2007
Monthly update sees 470 new records added.
27th November 2007
Australian NHMRC records re-indexed and updated due to URL changes
26th November 2007
WHO Health Evidence Network records added.
16th November
Monthly update sees 554 new records added.
4th October 2007
The Faculty of Family Practice and Reproductive Health Care has renamed itself to Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare. We have also re-indexed their Q&As, removing over 250 defunct records.
21st September 2007
Monthly update sees 467 new records added.
12th September 2007
STEPS (from the American Family Physician) added. These are reviews of new interventions and STEPS stands for Safety, Tolerability, Effectiveness, Price and Simplicity.
14th August 2007
Monthly update sees 616 new records added.
10th August 2007
Overhaul of the CMA Infobase records as well as updating of Royal College guidelines.
28th July 2007
Cochrane PEARLS added.
24th July 2007
Guidelines from The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners added.
23rd July 2007
Critical Care EBM Journal Club added.
13th July 2007
The Green Book added.
12th July 2007
Australia and New Zealand Horizon Scanning Network content added (from 2006)
12th July 2007
Monthly update see 455 new records added.
5th July 2007
dnobo medical images added as well as updating the RCM records.
18th June 2007
Monthly update see 464 new records added.
6th June 2007
Ask Dr Wiki records added, 669 records added.
5th June 2007
PRODIGY guidelines have had their URLs changed to reflect their move to the CKS 'brand'. Also added were the guidelines from the Dutch College of General Practitioners.
17th May 2007
Monthly update see 497 new records added
14th May 2007
The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland site re-indexed due to URL changes
1st May 2007
TRIP have released the first batch of their TRIP Evidence Reviews.
24th April 2007
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement added, following a URL change.
17th April 2007
The Scottish Medicines Compendium records have been added following a URL change.
12th April 2007
Monthly update see 399 new records added
12th April 2007
The Ganfyd records have been updated and various URL changes made. Over 1,500 new records added.
11th April 2007
RedAtlas medical images (600+) added to site.
15th March 2007
Monthly update see 500 new records added
6th March 2007
2 new sites added:
- Pediatric Evidence Reports
- POEMs (via PJ Online)
1st March 2007
3 news sites added:
- Penny Brohn Cancer Care
- Evidence-Based Electronic Library for Drugs and Addiction
- Evidentista, an evidence-based Q&A service
1st March 2007
Cochrane Library Updated - 150 new and updated systematic reviews added.
19th February 2007
Monthly update see 487 new records added
9th February 2007
Merck Manual of Geriatrics (3rd Edition) added. These will be spidered and indexed shortly and will be available to search from next week.
7th February 2007
Two new Mental Health resources added. The first, produced by WHO, are part of their mental and neurogical health in primary care resource. The second is a group of reviews published by Equilibrium - The Bipolar Foundation.
5th February 2007
CKS (formerly PRODIGY) has updated 14 guidelines and released 1 new guideline. The dates have been updated and the new guidelines added.
31st January 2007
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 'Evidence Report Series' reindexed due to URL changes.
18th January 2007
Monthly update see 472 new records added
8th January 2007
Royal College of Psychiatrists site reindexed due to URL changes.
30th December 2006
Records for the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme added.
12th December 2006
Monthly update see 481 new records added
5th December 2006
Due to restructuring of records all CRD records (DARE, HTA and NHS EED) have been re-indexed. Along with the Merck Manual records that represents a 'spring clean' of nearly 20,000 records.
5th December 2006
Merck Manual reindexed due to updating - now in 18th edition. The previous, 17th edition, was published in 1999.
19th November 2006
Latest batch of 97 new Ganfyd records added.
19th November 2006
Monthly update see 433 new records added
16th November 2006
Cochrane Library edition 4, new and updated systematic reviews added - 166 in total.
2nd November 2006
RCN records re-indexed due to URL changes.
2nd November 2006
New Ganfyd records added.
27th October 2006
PRODIGY records re-indexed and updated due to numerous guideline upgrades, re-namings etc.
15th October 2006
Monthly update see 458 new records added
15th October 2006
Latest upload of Ganfyd records, 209 new entries
13th October 2006
PedsCCM records reindexed (due to URL change) and added to the site
8th October 2006
Firefox extension for TRIP released - click here for more details.
6th October 2006
New patients information leaflets, from Informed Health Online added.
14th September 2006
New patients information leaflets, from Breast Cancer Care (UK), added.
12th September 2006
Monthly update sees 429 documents added.
4th September 2006
ganfyd (http://ganfyd.org) records have been added to the site. ganfyd is a medical wiki and, as such, is 'work in progress'.
21st August 2006
BMJ Updates added. This is not the complete collection of critically appraised and clinically relevent articles. TRIP started systematically recording this content at the start of August 2006 only.
21st August 2006
Canadian Guidelines Infobase re-indexed due to a significant number of changes on the site
8th August 2006
Monthly update see 503 new records added.
7th August 2006
Scottish Intensive Care Society (Evidence-Based Medicine Group) CATs re-indexed and updated.
7th August 2006
The UK Medicines Information 'Post-launch Reviews' added.
6th August 2006
The Australian Medical Services Advisory Committee records re-indexed due to URL changes.
3rd August 2006
'About Kids Health' patient information leaflets added - from The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto.
13th July 2006
Monthly update see 335 new records added.
19th June 2006
Family Physicians Inquiries Network records added. Not the complete selection just those freely available via the AFP site (http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/journals/afp.html).
18th June 2006
Monthly update see 416 new records added.
9th June 2006
Medical Criteria (http://www.medicalcriteria.com) records added.
3rd June 2006
PRODIGY guidelines re-indexed due to URL changes.
16th May 2006
Monthly update see 442 new records added.
19th April 2006
Monthly update see 482 new records added.
6th April 2006
The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health records added.
6th April 2006
Records for the UK's National Horizon Scanning Centre added.
31st March 2006
Rotherham PCT has a primary care Q&A service. These records have been added.
27th March 2006
BTS guidelines re-indexed due to URL changes.
24th March 2006
Joanna Briggs Institute records re-indexed.
22nd March 2006
ARIF documents edited due to new and withdrawn records.
22nd March 2006
Royal College of General Practitioners guidelines and position statements re-indexed due to URL changes.
22nd March 2006
Royal College of Ophthalmologists guidelines re-indexed due to URL changes.
13th March 2006
Monthly update see 295 new records added.
11th March 2006
Clinical Evidence records edited - removed a number of defunct entries and added a few new ones.
5th March 2006
The Better Health Channel records added. These are patient information records from the Victorian (Australia) Government.
4th March 2006
Cochrane Library re-indexed. Moved from the old Update Software URL to the www.cochrane.org URL.
2nd March 2006
CancerBACUP patient information leaflets added.
2nd March 2006
NIH Consensus Statements re-indexed due to URL change.
2nd March 2006
Two new alternative therapy resources added. A New Zealand Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) site linked to the New Zealand Guideline Group. Also the American National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
1st March 2006
New Zealand Guideline Group - consumer information leaflets added.
1st March 2006
PRODIGY PILs (patient information leaflets) re-indexed due to URL change. They have also more than doubled the number of PILs.
27th February 2006
PRODIGY site re-indexed due to URL change.
27th February 2006
Mayo Clinic patient information leaflets added.
22nd February 2006
Monthly update see 544 new records added.
22nd February 2006
Asthma UK patient information leaflets added.
12th February 2006
Midlands Therapeutics Review and Advisory Committee records added.
11th February 2006
Drugs in Lactation (UK Medicines Information), Northern and Yorkshire Drug and Therapeutics Centre, and Organization of Teratology Information Specialists records added.
10th February 2006
NHS Scotland Quality Improvement documents added.
9th February 2006
Scottish Medicine Consortium's medicine reviews added.
3rd February 2006
Patients information leaflets from Rethink, Arthritis Research Council, British Association of Dermatologists and The Stroke Association added.
3rd February 2006
Royal College Guidelines re-indexed and updated.
2nd February 2006
CMA Guidelines Infobase completely re-indexed due to a significant number of URL changes.
31st January 2006
The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines have been updated due to URL changes.
26th January 2006
New collections of medical images added taking the total of images searched by TRIP to just over 50,000
24th January 2006
ASERNIP-S site re-indexed due to URL changes.
14th January 2006
Birmingham Women's Hospital CATs re-indexed due to URL changes.
14th January 2006
American Thoracic Society CATs re-indexed due to URL changes.
14th December 2005
Monthly update see 453 new records added.
9th December 2005
The latest upgrade to the TRIP Database has seen a number of major changes. Much of this has been stimulated by an external review carried out by Paul Glasziou at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford.
- A complete redesign of the site to enhance ease of use.
- Separation of the previous 'Evidence-Based' category into 'Evidence-Based Synopses' and 'Systematic Reviews'.
- Separating 'Clinical Guidelines' into 3 separate geographic areas.
- Overhaul of the way 'Medical Images' are displayed and managed. This section now searches 35,000 medical images
- Creation of a 'Clinical Calculators' section.
- New 'TRIP Reviews' offer rapid condition specific overviews
- Better integration with Medline/PubMed to allow for combination searches to be passed to PubMed.
- 'Refine Search' feature to help ensure a more focussed result.
9th December 2005
Due to URL changes PRODIGY has been re-indexed.16th November 2005
Monthly update see 604 new records added.
10th November 2005
DERMIS re-indexed due to an alteration in their site structure.
24th October 2005
NHS Direct patient information leaflets re-indexed due to their site restructuring.
21st October 2005
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Clinical Queries records added, 32 in total
20th October 2005
Monthly update see 668 new records added.
16th October 2005
ARIF records re-indexed
4th October 2005
The Faculty of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care Q&A service answers have been added to the site (900+ records)
15th September 2005
Monthly update see 440 new records added.
29th August 2005
ASERNIP-S re-indexed due to URL changes
NeLM CATs (UK) added to site - 14 new CATs
Australian National Prescribing Service Limited added - 71 new records
28th August 2005
WeMeReC bulletins added to the site.
MeReC 'Briefings' and 'Extra' added to the site (previously it was only MeReC Bulletins)
16th August 2005
Monthly update see 518 new records added.
14th July 2005
Monthly update sees 379 new records added
1st July 2005
Cochrane Systematic Reviews updated. A total of 133 new or updated records added.
30th June 2005
Four new Patient Information sources added two from the USA (eMedicineHealth and Family Doctor) and two from the UK (Patient UK and BUPA). These 2,390 records have more than doubled those previosuly available.
Clinical Evidence re-indexed due to alterations in subjects. Now 212 entries (previously 204).
21st June 2005
Monthly update sees 429 new records added
18th June 2005
Faculty of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care records added, 29 in total.
National Breast Cancer Centre guidelines added, 13 added.
24th May 2005
Two new guideline collections identified via G-I-N (www.g-i-n.net) - 'International Union Against TB and Lung Disease' and 'South African Department of Health'. These have been indexed and records added to the TRIP Database.
23rd May 2005
Latest update to synonyms list with over 250 new synonyms added.
22nd May 2005
SIGN re-indexed, multiple duplicate records removed.
Evidence-Based Neurology re-indexed due to site URL change.
21st May 2005
Royal Colleges guideline collections overhauled, 143 new guidelines added.
20th May 2005
Monthly update sees 515 new records added
1st May 2005
RCOG guidelines re-indexed due to site URL changes.
21st April 2005
Monthly update sees 597 new records added
18th March 2005
Monthly update sees 416 new records added
10th March 2005
eMedicine.com re-indexed. The total number of records for eMedicine has increased by nearly a 1000 to 6,387.
Lab Tests UK and Lab Tests USA records added to the eTextbook section (148 and 210 records respectively in total). A useful resource that helps in the understanding of lab tests.
15th February 2005
Monthly update sees 323 new records added
30th January 2005
Due to the new BMJ publication rules (access restrictions for records less than a year old) POEMs have been reindexed and records less than a year old removed.
26th January 2005
ARIF records completely re-indexed with an extra 18 records added.
25th January 2005
Monthly update sees 446 new records added
20th January 2005
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist Information Service records added - 30 in total.
17th January 2005
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement records added - 70 in total. Only those that link to full reports are included.
17th January 2005
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has 5 main outputs. Prior to today only the 'Evidence-based Practice' and 'Clinical Practice Guidelines' (incorporated in National Guideline Clearinghouse) were included. The remaining 3 outputs ('Outcomes and Effectiveness', 'TEchnology Assessment' and 'Preventive Services') have now been included adding an additional 113 records.
17th January 2005
The UK's National Service Frameworks have been added to the Guidelines section of the site. In total 27 separate entries.
11th January 2005
The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre health promotion reviews have been added (14 in total).
7th January 2005
Clinical Evidence records re-indexed with 9 new topics added.
20th December 2004
The NLH Q&A Service has been added to the site with 51 new records.
20th December 2004
Monthly update sees 427 new records added
24th November 2004
Monthly update sees 414 new records added
26th October 2004
Monthly update sees 496 new records added
7th October 2004
Two new publications added, both from Australia: The National Institute of Clinical Studies (16 records added) and the Medical Services Advisory Committee (63 records added).
30th September 2004
A rigourous internet review of sources of CATs has identified 8 new sources. These have been added giving a total of 242 new CATs
27th September 2004
The Joanna Briggs Institute records have been completely re-indexed.
24th September 2004
The TRIP Database is now freely available to low-income countries (as defined by the World Bank).
22rd September 2004
Monthly update sees 366 new records added.
17th September 2004
The latest upgrade to the TRIP Database sees the following enhancements:
- Personalisation feature. Restrict searches to best reflect your clinical speciality.
- UMLS. Records in the TRIP Database are being indexed using the UMLS Metathesaurus.
- Enhanced mis-spelling feature.
- Completely reviewed and revised synonyms dictionary.
- New auto-searching of PubMed to include the big four journals (NEJM, JAMA, Lancet and BMJ).
- Medical images now expanded to over 83,000 images and now viewable via thumbnails.
- Easy method to obtain more or fewer results.
- PDFs text can now be searched.
- JISC login. The TRIP Database is now available via JISC
12th September 2004
The National Guideline Clearinghouse has been completely re-indexed. Approximately 150 expired guidelines removed.
23rd August 2004
Monthly update sees 356 new records added.
20th August 2004
The final testing version of the latest upgrades to the TRIP Database is imminent. The launch is due for the start of September. Probably the most significant upgrade in the history of the TRIP Database.
20th August 2004
Clinical Evidence has been re-indexed and two new topics added.
17th August 2004
ARIF records completely re-indexed.
16th August 2004
POEMs, as featured in the BMJ, added to the site further adding to the quality and depth of the TRIP Database content.
18th July 2004
Monthly update sees 350 new records added.
1st July 2004
The Yale Heart Book has been added to the site.
24th June 2004
The Medical Images section has been doubled in size by adding two new sources - Hardin MD and The Karolinska Institute. The sources are actually medical image links pages which we have spidered and not actual producers of medical images themselves. The total number of medical images contained in the TRIP Database is now over 80,000, we believe this to be the largest searchable collection of medical images on the internet.
21st June 2004
Monthly update sees 239 new records added.
15th June 2004
Three new sources have been added to the TRIP Database: the Australian eMJA Clinical Guidelines; the Canadian Therapeutic Letters; and the UK's Treatment Notes.
14th June 2004
The Medical Images section has been reviewed with the following alterations: WebPath records have been overhauled and their URLs corrected (1681 records added); The Bristol Biomed Image Archive has been added (2317 records); Dermatlas has been re-indexed (980 records of which 300 are new to the TRIP Database).
1st June 2004
The Evidence-Based Mental Health journal has been added to the TRIP Database. As with the Evidence-Based Medicine journal the most recent years worth of Evidence-Based Mental Health is restricted and not included in the TRIP Database. 525 records were added today.
31st May 2004
The Evidence-Based Nursing journal has been added to the TRIP Database. As with the Evidence-Based Medicine journal the most recent years worth of Evidence-Based Nursing is restricted and not included in the TRIP Database. 528 records were added today.
26th May 2004
With great delight the Evidence-Based Medicine journal has been re-added to the TRIP Database. EBM was removed a number of years ago due to access restrictions. However, these have been eased meaning only the most recent years worth of EBM is restricted. Therefore 504 EBM articles were added today.
24th May 2004
Monthly update sees 347 new records added.
6th May 2004
41 new guidelines added from the "Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland" and "The Association of British Neurologists"
23rd April 2004
Monthly update sees 420 new records added.
16th April 2004
Reintroduction of the CMA Guidelines Infobase with 663 new guidelines added.
1st April 2004
Continuing the theme of enhancing the clinical guideline content of the TRIP Database two new sites have been identified and added - Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council.
1st April 2004
Complete reworking of UK Guidelines. Previously all records linked to the NeLH Guideline Finder records now they link directly to the actual guidelines. The guidelines have also been separated out into different publishers such as the Royal Colleges, SIGN and PRODIGY with the caterogry of NeLH Guideline Finder being reserved for publishers of small guideline collections.
25th March 2004
Monthly update sees 309 new records added
22nd March 2004
Evidence-Based On-Call. Previously the TRIP Database linked only to the 29 guide areas. Given the poor search recall as a result of this all CATs have now been indexed - approximately 1700.
NICE. Previously these were considered a single entry. However, they have now been split to reflect the two main areas - 'Guidelines' and 'Technology Appraisals'. The 'Interventional Procedures' have also been added - an extra 45 records taken from http://www.nice.org.uk/cms/ip/ipguidance.aspx
20th February 2004
Monthly update sees 355 new records added
13th January 2004
Informed Health. These records have been added and replace the Cochrane Consumer Collaboration records.
1st January 2004
Happy New Year
21st December
The latest update has been carried out with 553 new records added. These will be indexed and made live over the next 2 days.
25th November
The latest update has been carried out with 642 new records added. These will be indexed and made live over the next 2 days.
22nd October
The latest update has been carried out with 452 new records added. These will be indexed and made live over the next 2 days.
1st October
FPIN Clinical Inquiries has been added to TRIP Database Plus. These 96 new records will be indexed and made live over the next 2 days.
JFP Applied Evidence has also been added. These 29 new records will be indexed and made live over the next 2 days.
28th September
The latest update has been carried out with 648 new records added. These will be indexed and made live over the next 2 days.
28th August 2003
The latest update has been carried out with 386 new records added. These will be indexed and made live over the next 2 days.
The Joanna Briggs Institute records (Best Practice and Executive Summaries) have been added. These will be indexed and made live over the next 2 days.
31st July 2003
The July 2003 monthly update has gone live - adding 439 new records
Cochrane Systematic Reviews from Edition 3 2003 went live today
1st June 2003
New to TRIP'
For those of you who are new to TRIP, then welcome! This is the launch of TRIP Plus, and we are very pleased to introduce you to the many useful features of this extensive database.
Already a user of TRIP'
Regular users of the existing TRIP will find that many of the suggestions made for improvements over the last few years have been incorporated into TRIP Plus.
TRIP was always free - why do we have to pay for TRIP Plus'
TRIP was initially developed by Jon Brassey in his spare time, to fulfil information needs that he saw as he worked within the NHS (UK). As the number and type of publications searched and referenced has increased over the years, it has taken up more of Jon's time. There are also the costs of hosting and running the web site. Also, there were a number of features that Jon has wanted to add to the product, but needed to charge for.
In the IT world, nothing stays still and, in order to keep pace with developments that users expect and to maintain the high level of quality that the product has established, it is necessary to have some income to sustain it. We have preferred to remain independent of both healthcare products and institutions and to make a small charge to end users.
You can, of course, email us about this as about anything else within the site: info@tripdatabase.com
Will I still be able to use the present TRIP for no charge' A basic version of the present TRIP will continue to exist for at least a while. However, in order to encourage people to subscribe to TRIP, we will be moving some of the features in the process of development such as the Clinical Area entirely to the new site.
