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50 Resources for Healthcare: 25. Search for clinical evidence via TRIP

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The TRIP database is a search tool that will help you to find good quality research evidence. It can help you to find synopses, systematic reviews, guidelines and key primary research as it searches across a wide range of healthcare specific resources; You can also find information such as images, videos, patient information and more. The search engine is freely available on the Internet.

Type your keywords in to the search box for a simple search or use the advanced search options for more complicated searching.
Screen-shot of an example search in TRIP

There is also an option to perform a PICO search, Don’t know what PICO is? Find out in our PICO etutorial.

There are a number of videos to help you to get to grips with TRIP, and you can follow their Facebook page for more information on new features and releases.
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