SUMsearch appears to me more intelligent and more informed.
I tried to look up piriformis syndrome, a subject on which I have conducted
a systematic search. SUMsearch did the following:
Reviews nil (incorrect, there are reviews though no systematic ones)
Original papers 47 (there are more)
and in the Merck Manual it gave a section on the self-same subject followed
by related topics (other muscle syndromes)
TRIP on the other hand gave:
160 related papers but virtually all irrelevant (I gave up scrolling)
because it treated the two terms as a Boolean OR
When I repeated the search in TRIP for piriformis AND syndrome, I got no
returns. As Spiderman's creators used to say, Nuff Said.
--
Kev Hopayian, Seahills, Leiston Rd, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5PL, England
Web site: http://www.suffolk-maag.ac.uk/kevhop
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>Subject: RE: SUMSearch
>Date: Wed, May 3, 2000, 12:58 pm
>
> Dear all, can anyone tell me how this compares with the TRIP database?
> http://www.ceres.uwcm.ac.uk/frameset.cfm?section=trip
> <http://www.ceres.uwcm.ac.uk/frameset.cfm?section=trip>
>
> Many thanks
> John Powell
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