[1] It is an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides an immediate reference resource for clinicians worldwide.
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.
[2] 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.
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.
[6] GPnotebook is used within consultation by general practitioners[7] and is often used to access information about rare diseases [8]