{{Short description|Clinical search engine}} {{Infobox software | name = Trip | logo = | screenshot = | caption = | developer = Trip Database Ltd | latest_release_version = | latest_release_date = | latest_preview_version = | latest_preview_date = | operating_system = | genre = Search engine | language = | license = Proprietary | website = [https://www.tripdatabase.com Trip] }}
'''Trip''' is a free clinical search engine used in the United Kingdom to help clinicians identify research evidence, in part for creating systematic reviews.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tsafnat |first1=Guy |last2=Glasziou |first2=Paul |last3=Choong |first3=Miew Keen |last4=Dunn |first4=Adam |last5=Galgani |first5=Filippo |last6=Coiera |first6=Enrico |date=2014 |title=Systematic review automation technologies |journal=Systematic Reviews |volume=3 |issue=1 |page=74 |doi=10.1186/2046-4053-3-74 |issn=2046-4053 |doi-access=free |pmid=25005128 |pmc=4100748 }}</ref>
==History== The site was created in 1997 by Jon Brassey and Chris Price in Gwent, South Wales.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Meats |first1=Emma |last2=Brassey |first2=Jon |last3=Heneghan |first3=Carl |last4=Glasziou |first4=Paul |date=2007 |title=Using the Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database: how do clinicians really search? |journal=Journal of the Medical Library Association |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=156–163 |doi=10.3163/1536-5050.95.2.156 |doi-broken-date=1 July 2025 |issn=1558-9439 |pmc=1852632 |pmid=17443248}}</ref> In 1999, one source reported it aggregated results from 25 websites.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Web Watch - January 1999 |url=http://www.bandolier.org.uk/band59/b59-5.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205084055/http://www.bandolier.org.uk/band59/b59-5.html |archive-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> In 2003, Trip became a subscription-only service. This was abandoned In September 2006 and in 2015 followed a freemium business model. Originally "Trip" stood for Turning Research Into Practice.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tripdatabase.com/about |title=About |work=Trip |publisher=Trip Database Ltd |access-date=3 April 2013}}</ref>
==Usage== Between May 2004 and May 2005, 620,735 searches were undertaken.<ref name=":0" />
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Category:British medical websites Category:Information retrieval systems