The problem is that a simple bullet point is insufficient to get across much in the way of information, so we decided on an eight-page A4 format. The first issue of Bandolier was published in February 1994, and monthly since. The current monthly print run is about 25,000 copies. Since 1999, every second issue also has bound in a copy of a sister publication called ImpAct . The Internet version of Bandolier started in 1995, accessible from a University of Oxford server at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
Every issue is available, full text, and free of charge.
Traffic continues to grow, and Bandolier is proud of its links with the National electronic Library of Health . The site is also found on a number of intranets, notably at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and NHSweb Cymru. Each month PubMed and the Cochrane Library are searched for systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in the recent past. Those that look remotely interesting are read, and where they are both interesting and make sense, they appear in Bandolier . Other types of information, like large epidemiological studies, may be included if they shed important light on a topic.