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15 Feb 2022
An important collection of posts to help you use and understand Trip blog.tripdatabase.com/2022/0…
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Some clinical questions are really “two questions wearing one coat.”
The danger is that an AI system quietly blends separate evidence bases into a fluent, authoritative answer—without answering what the clinician actually meant.
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AskTrip’s 20,000th question looked perfectly reasonable:
“What are the differential diagnoses for achondroplasia in paediatric patients with chronic constipation?”
But hidden inside it were potentially three different clinical questions.
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At 01:38 this morning, AskTrip answered its 20,000th clinical question—less than a year after launch.
A milestone worth celebrating, but the question itself also revealed something important about how clinical AI can fail.
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What are the differential diagnoses for achondroplasia in paediatric patients with chronic constipation?
This was our 20,000 Q&A
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19,996 questions asked via AskTrip.
When I wake up tomorrow we will have hit 20,000 - that’s some milestone
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Jun 13
Our most recent Qs as we close in on 20,000
Why not ask a Q yourself: tripdatabase.com/ask/archive
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Jun 11
What do AskTrip’s most-viewed Q&As reveal?
Not just popular topics.
They reveal complex knowledge needs: rehabilitation, service delivery, social care, green space, safety, implementation and applicability.
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Jun 11
The demand for evidence is not always about missing research.
Sometimes the problem is that existing evidence is scattered, indirect, interdisciplinary or hard to apply.
AskTrip’s most-viewed Q&As make that visible:
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Jun 11
Evidence-based practice does not stop at the clinic door.
Some of the most-viewed AskTrip Q&As concern recovery, participation, inclusion, wellbeing and how services are organised.
That should matter to evidence systems:
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Jun 10
AskTrip’s most-viewed Q&As suggest something important:
Users are not just looking for papers.
They are looking for interpretation, synthesis and a clear sense of what evidence means for practice.
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Jun 10
A clinical question may look simple: “does this intervention work?”
But the real need is often harder:
Does it apply here?
Is it safe?
What does it mean in practice?
Is the evidence direct or indirect?
Our latest blog:
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Jun 10
Many popular AskTrip Q&As sit outside the “safe” world of simple trial or guideline questions.
Rehab. Green space. Social inclusion. Service delivery. Participation. Wellbeing.
These are evidence needs too:
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Jun 10
Real-world evidence needs are messy.
They cross medicine, rehabilitation, psychology, public health, social care and service design.
AskTrip’s most-viewed Q&As show why evidence tools need to work beyond simple treatment questions:
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Jun 10
The original AskTrip question tells us what one user wanted to know.
Later views show that others recognised the same question as relevant to their own evidence need.
That gives us a kind of triangulation of evidence demand:
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Jun 10
AskTrip’s most-viewed Q&As are not just about drugs, diagnoses and guidelines.
They include rehab, green space, social care, service delivery, safeguarding and complex real-world scenarios.
That tells us something important about evidence needs:
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