My blog today is a bit different. It’s announcing a new website rather than highlighting a specific piece of mental health evidence.
Coinciding with its 100 millionth search, the Trip Database has released its latest upgrade, easily the biggest change in Trip’s fifteen years. Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users (mainly clinicians) to quickly and easily find the best available evidence. It’s a website that I use on a regular basis and when I’m searching for mental health evidence I find it’s the best place to start.
Covering all clinical specialities, Trip’s index includes records from hundreds of publishers all of whom have been quality graded. Publishers include Cochrane, NICE, SIGN, Lancet, BMJ, Prodigy, Evidence-Based Mental Health and of course the Mental Elf!
The latest upgrade sees a completely new design, making it even easier to use the site and to find evidence-based content. An example search for depression and exercise finds a number of results, the top three, all published in 2012, being:
- Exercise for depression, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- A pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a physical activity intervention as a treatment for depression: the treating depression with physical activity (TREAD) trial, NIHR HTA programme
- The effect of exercise in clinically depressed adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, DARE
This brief example gives a hint of the capability, but to fully appreciate the site, why not give it a try now? It’s free to use and can be found at http://www.tripdatabase.com
We would certainly recommend Trip as the most relevant and reliable clinical search engine available.
