GPnotebook

{{Short description|British medical database}}

{{Use British English|date=December 2011}}

{{Infobox biodatabase

|title = GPnotebook

|description = Medical database, and encyclopedia for medicine in English

|organism = Human

|center = Oxbridge Solutions Limited

|url = {{URL|http://www.gpnotebook.com|gpnotebook.com}}

|license = Proprietary

}}

GPnotebook is a British medical database for general practitioners (GPs).[http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/subjects/medicine/websites.php Selected sites for medicine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728103926/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/subjects/medicine/websites.php |date=2008-07-28 }} description of site at University of Leeds library. It is an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides an immediate reference resource for clinicians worldwide. The database consists of over 30,000 index terms and over two million words of information. GPnotebook is provided online by Oxbridge Solutions Limited.

GPnotebook website is primarily designed with the needs of general practitioners (GPs) in mind, and written by a variety of specialists, ranging from paediatrics to accident and emergency.Thompson E.(2006) [https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/56/3/220/1374586 GPnotebook:www.gpnotebook.co.uk].Occupational Medicine, Vol 56 (3):220

The original idea for the database began in the canteen of John Radcliffe Hospital in 1990 while James McMorran, a first-year Oxford University clinical student, was writing up his medical notes. Instead of writing notes in longhand, he wrote his notes in ‘mind maps’ of packets of information linking different concepts and conditions in a two-dimensional representation of clinical knowledge. James discussed with Stewart McMorran (then a medical student at Cambridge University and a talented computer programmer) this way of representing medical knowledge and between them they created the authoring software to produce linking ‘packets’ of information in a database.https://gpnotebook.com/images/GPN_presentation-3.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520135106/https://gpnotebook.com/images/GPN_presentation-3.pdf |date=2022-05-20 }} History of GPnotebook. GPnotebook. Retrieved 26 May 2020. This first authoring software and database was the origin of what today is GPnotebook. It was, in effect, a medical ‘Wiki’ over 16 years before the first ‘Wiki’!

Initially, James used the authoring software alone to capture his own clinical learning. There was interest from other medical students at Oxford and in the end a team of six authors (mainly Oxford medical students) became the founding (and continuing) principal authors of GPnotebook.Evans C (2003). [https://www.roffeypark.com/wp-content/uploads2/Developing-and-retaining-organisational-knowledge.pdf Chapter 4 ‘Case studies in acquiring and building organisational knowledge’. In Evans C. Developing and Retaining Organisational Knowledge. Roffey Park Institute, pp 21-23]. {{ISBN|0-907416-91-8}} Among them was Damian Crowther who, in time, took over the role of technical lead for the project.McMorran J, Crowther D (2002).[https://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/article/view/251 Personalised Medical Reference to General Practice Notebook (GPnotebook) – an evolutionary tale].Informatics in Primary Care;10:173–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/jhi.v10i3.251 James takes the role of editorial lead for the website. Damian developed the software for the web version of the database which was released on the worldwide web in 2001 as GPnotebook.McMorran J, Crowther D, McMorran S.(2014)[https://bjgp.org/content/64/619/92 20 years of GPnotebook: from a medical student project to a national resource].British Journal of General Practice, Vol 64 (619): 92-93.

GPnotebook is used within consultation by general practitioners[https://www.pennine-gp-training.co.uk/Useful_Links.html Useful Links] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610151820/https://www.pennine-gp-training.co.uk/Useful_Links.html |date=2020-06-10 }}. Pennine GP Training. Retrieved 26 May 2020. and is often used to access information about rare diseases Evans WR, Tranter J, Rafi I, Qureshi N (2020). [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32125658/ How Genomic information is accessed in clinical practice: an electronic survey of UK general practitioners].Journal of Community Genetics.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-020-00457-5