Trip: Overview

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find a variety of high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Results provided can be sorted by quality, relevance, date or popularity and organized by the type of evidence via a pyramid graphic under the title of each article.

The library provides the free version of Trip. We do not have an institutional subscription to this product. There is a pro version of Trip that can be purchased which allows more full text results and additional tools if you wish to subscribe on your own. The personal subscription has an annual cost of $55 + tax.

For a comparison of free versus paid features see: Trip Feature Comparison

• Trip provides a graphic next to each result to inform you about level of evidence it qualifies as. The hierarchy is shown above.
• Filtering options are provided to focus on the kind of evidence (systematic reviews, primary research, regulatory guidance, etc.) desired.
• Search results can be ranked by quality, relevance, date or popularity.
• Patient/population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcomes (PICO) searching is available allowing you to focus in on your research question.
• Trip provides a large collection of clinical guidelines and thousands of systematic reviews.
• The SmartSearch feature displays three related articles.
• If you sign up with your email to Trip, you can receive alerts about newly added sources regarding topics of interest to you at no charge.

Trip has a blog and the most recent posts are shown here. Click on the website link below to see the rest.