Introduction
eviQ Cancer Treatments Online is a major program of the Cancer Institute NSW. It is a point of care clinical information resource providing health professionals with current evidence based, peer maintained, best practice cancer treatment protocols and information. In 2012 there were over 216,739 visits and 25,000 site registrations.

However, there are significant challenges in ensuring the ongoing content currency of such a complex range of resources. In 2012-2103, eviQ partnered with Flinders Filters in a project to develop a system to harvest the literature to support protocol development and review.

Methods
The preliminary scoping study involved an analysis of the range of eviQ protocols and the search strategies that supported the development of protocols for clinical guidance. The development stage involved the creation of individual protocol searches as well as the preparation of a dictionary of common search elements.

Findings
The eviQ program houses over 1,400 evidence-based content items in the following areas – Cancer Genetics, Haematology, Haemopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplant, Medical Oncology, Nursing, Primary Health Care, and Radiation Oncology.

Each cancer type search was developed and validated through textword and MeSH term frequency analysis. The search construct was then tested against a convenience set of references garnered from the NCCN Guidelines for that cancer type. Individual protocol searches were tested against the retrievals of existing eviQ references on a protocol by protocol basis. These searches were then reviewed by eviQ experts and either approved or further refined by Flinders Filters until final signoff by eviQ.

All search components have been written for use in PubMed to enable open hyperlinked access.

Conclusion
Integrating a search function into the eviQ process ensures real time engagement with the evidence base to inform individual clinicians and enables the development of eviQ’s clinical guidance.