GIDEON Reviews and Quotes

“Conclusion. The performance of GIDEON in diagnosing imported fever is relatively good and reproducible …”
Evaluation of the GIDEON Expert Computer Program for the Diagnosis of Imported Febrile Illnesses,
Medical Decision Making, 2008

“Data were obtained from the Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network (http://www.gideononline.com/), which reports current distributions of infectious diseases in each country of the world.”
Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism, Proceedings B of the Royal Society, 2008

“GIDEON is a subscription-based diagnostic and reference web application that provides extensive geographic and epidemiological information for 332 human infectious agents.”
Globalization Of Human Infectious Disease, Ecology, 2007

“Presumed identification of Actinobacillus suis was confirmed by the Global Infectious Diseases & Epidemiology Network (GIDEON) software (100%)”
Clinical Microbiology Newsletter, 2006

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries “GIDEON is an online database that definitely has a place and is (arguably) a necessity in today’s climate of rising infectious diseases and infectious disease warfare. GIDEON is also a great tool to foster diligent diagnosis of infectious diseases and attention to appropriate antibiotic or drug therapy which can impact the fight against resistant organisms.”
Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2006

“GIDEON … is an interactive software tool for diagnosis and reference of infectious disease, tropical disease, and bioterrorism. It also includes information on epidemiology, microbiology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.”
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 2006

“…an intellectual tour de force for helping physicians quickly and successfully respond to the diagnostic and therapeutic problems of seeing patients with infectious illnesses that either are intrinsically complex or may have originated in unfamiliar, foreign settings. In times when exotic travel brings exotic diseases into our offices, GIDEON provides world-class consultation. It continues to be the best designed expert program I have seen for medical practice.”
Vincent J. Felitti, MD, Reviewer for JAMA, 2005

“GIDEON is an up-to-date and comprehensive resource for Geographic Medicine”
International Journal of Health Geographics, 2005 (PDF)

“…The programme is robust. Data are culled from Medline searches, meeting reports, WHO publications, etc, and are updated weekly. It is also easy to navigate, and allows users to enter personal notes…”
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2005

… GIDEON is a useful program that makes optimal use of the World Wide Web, with regard to both the access to and the presentation of data for the infectious diseases community.
Clinical Infectious Diseases (PDF), 2005

… the correct diagnoses appeared on the differential diagnosis lists for 91% of the cases … we believe that GIDEON is a novel and potentially powerful tool in infectious disease diagnosis.
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2005

… a total of 332 different human pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and helminths distributed across 224 nations. Epidemiological data on PID species were extracted from the Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network database.
Plos Biology, 2004

“All potential bioterrorism agents as specified by CDC are included in the GIDEON knowledge base” from Evaluating Detection and Diagnostic Decision Support Systems for Bioterrorism Response
Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC, 2004

… using an online diagnostic program called GIDEON … entering Alexander [the Great]‘s symptoms – respiratory infection, liver disorder, rash – plus the link with birds, “the answer was West Nile, 100%”, says Calisher.
Nature, The Guardian, 2003 (also in Discovery, Grani, Le Scienze)

When Alexander’s clinical symptoms were listed on GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and EpidemiOlogy Network) …
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Center for Disease Control, 2003

“… we used GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease & EpidemiOlogy Network), a software program containing caseload and diagnostic data on over 300 diseases for more than 200 countries, gathered from WHO statistics, journals and periodicals, and national health ministries”
Climate Research, 2003 (PDF)

“GIDEON is the epitome of its genre. If you are a clinician having any contact with infectious diseases, working in a microbiology laboratory … the Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network is worth examining. This important program deserves widespread attention.”
Vincent J. Felitti, MD, JAMA, 2002

“GIDEON … is an excellent tool for teaching and practical case solving, since it gives an exhaustive list of all possible diagnoses”
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2003 (PDF)

“Often, distinctive physical findings are not seen in returning travelers … A commercially-available diagnostic program, GIDEON can help in tabulating findings and providing differential diagnoses.”
Lancet I Lancet II, 2003

GIDEON cited in ProMED over 400 times since 1995
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“This program is highly recommended for travel medicine, tropical medicine, and infectious disease practitioners, particularly those residing in teaching institutions.”
American Society of Microbiology, 2002

“GIDEON covers over 330 infectious and parasitic diseases from over 205 countries … This computer-driven Bayesian matrix can help diagnose most of the world’s infectious diseases based on the signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings that users enter for their patients.”
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2001 (PDF)

“…the most comprehensive tropical medicine database available…”
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2001

“A slow-growing mucoid bacteria was identified as K rhinoscleromatis … by the GIDEON program”
Chest, 2000

GIDEON, a computer program for diagnosis…
Emerging Infectious Diseases, C DC, 2000

“This program does what textbooks cannot, and does it well.”
Journal of Travel Medicine, 1999

“The correct diagnosis appeared in 95% of cases…”
Infectious Disease Clinical Practices, 1998

“In five cases, the GIDEON diagnostic module correctly supplied a leading diagnosis not considered by the admitting team”
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1998

“Anyone who has never used a good artificial intelligence program would do well to start at the top with GIDEON”
JAMA, 1997

GIDEON provides information on Cholera
Journal of Travel Medicine, 1997

Listing of GIDEON in German Medical Software magazine
Deutsches Ärzteblatt’s Praxis Computer

The original GIDEON paper, 1993 (PDF as published in the Journal of Travel Medicine, 1995)