| The team
at GPnotebook are continually working on the clinical
content of the site to ensure that it meets the quality
and relevance that practising doctors need. But we do
not pretend that we are the best at everything - there
are other valuable resources of clinical information
on the internet.
The spidernaevi project is
an initiative that brings together the content of excellent
clinical websites and allows our users convenient access.
When you use GPnotebook you can continually keep an
eye on what else is available on a particular topic.
Our clients commonly use spidernaevi
to answer the following problems:
| Problem |
How spidernaevi helps |
| I need an image of atopic eczema |
Go to the eczema page on GPnotebook and look for
links to www.dermis.net |
| I need a patient leaflet for rheumatoid arthritis |
Go to the RA page on GPnotebook and look for links
to www.patient.co.uk |
| I need to know about the evidence for statin therapy |
Go to the statin page on GPnotebook and look for
links to www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier |
| I need to check that GPnotebook is saying the
right thing |
Look for links to our favourite site in the US,
www.fpnotebook.com |
| I need to check DVLA driving regulations |
Go to the DVLA page on GPnotebook and look for
links to www.dvla.gov.uk |
| I want to remind myself about the appearance of
an atherosclerotic plaque |
Go to the atherosclerosis page on GPnotebook and
look for links to www.brisbio.ac.uk |
How does spider naevi
work?
The GPnotebook team have chosen six
of the websites that we use ourselves (click
for more...). The spidernaevi robot visits
all the pages on these sites. We ensure that the spider
only samples pages at off-peak times and does not in
any way interfere with the performance of the sites.
We find keywords in the webpages and use these to determine
the relevance of the webpage to each of the 12,000 headline
pages in GPnotebook. We currently index 100,000 webpages
and generate over 20 million links between GPnotebook
and the target websites. Algorithms developed in-house
allow us to find the most relevant links for each page
of GPnotebook - you can see these links on the right
of the screen under the spidernaevi logo.
|
Get involved!
Do you know a clinical website that you
think would bring extra power to the spidernaevi
project?
Is there a site that you find useful and
would be accessible to our spider?
If you have a subscription to our tracker
facility you can nominate a website for the spider to
visit.
To nominate a website make sure are logged
into your tracker account and then click
here...
|
