Resource of the week #21: TRIP

What is it?

TRIP – meaning Turn Research Into Practice – is a clinical search engine, that allows you to search for good-quality research evidence.

Key Features

There are a number of search options:

Simple free-text search
PICO search
Advanced search options

The range of information that can be searched, includes:

Research articles
Evidence reviews
Guidelines
Images
Videos
Patient information

You can filter your results by evidence-type.

Example screen-shot from TRIP

How can it help you?

TRIP is a good resource to help you to find high-level, good quality evidence.

How to access it?

TRIP is available in 2 versions.

Standard version – this is freely available on the Internet. All users can access this.
Pro Version – this is a subscribed version and will give you additional features such as images and video as well as some full-text links. NHS users can access the Pro version via the NHS network.

Note that you will not necessarily be able to link to the full-text. Check the library collections to see if we have a subscription to the articles you find.

Video demo

Watch this video from founder Jon Brassey for more information about TRIP:

eTutorial

There are a number of video tutorials to help you get started with TRIP.

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