NHS Evidence

NHS Evidence is a very promising start - it's already good enough to be used in favour of Medline and Google for quick searches on clinical effectiveness in the UK. It could do with a really good database of recent systematic reviews because DARE is not up to date.

One odd result so far - a search for BNP (a peptide not the dark side of UKIP) in heart failure worked well, but when the 'diagnosis' filter was applied the results became less relevant to the use of BNP as a diagnostic tool. It's difficult to get get metadata right on search engines (Berry Brothers does a very good job, but that is because of the nature of their business). Maybe not even worth it. Just let users put in the words they want and let the technology de-fangle the query.

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