I rely on this program because it has everything I need in a pinch. We are a sentinel lab for biosecurity and special pathogens, our hospital serves people from all over the world. This is the one application that I can find information on all these topics. It is a Godsend I would not want to be without.

Sheryl Stuckey
Manager of Microbiology Lab
Holy Cross Hospital

It’s irreplaceable. I haven’t seen anything else that compares to GIDEON.

Dr. Jeffrey P. Gumprecht
MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Having tried and tested each of the modules, GIDEON does a good job in making it quick and easy for a healthcare professional to access accurate and up to date information and that is the beauty and success of GIDEON. It remains an outstanding and easy to use, up to date resource. Commendable. Well done.

Dr. Jane Zuckerman
Consultant in Travel Medicine
London, United Kingdom

With the help of decision support tools, clinicians can differentiate between vector-borne diseases during a season where more people are at risk…Although none of these systems can “make” a diagnosis, they are capable of generating a list of diseases that are compatible with a patient’s epidemiological background, signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings.

Dr. Stephen Berger
Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare

…GIDEON serves as a tool for differential diagnoses and as a reference for treatment and epidemiological information. The reference functionality is useful to librarians, researchers, and educators.

Doody’s Collection Development

One of the most powerful applications worldwide is the GIDEON system, which helps diagnose 337 specific infectious diseases in 224 countries. Its database covers 1,147 microbial taxa and 306 antibacterial agents and vaccines. The information it handles is updated weekly and includes more than 20,000 images, graphics, infographics maps, etc. All this allows you to reach 94% of correct diagnoses, and that is why it is one of the most used systems in the field of medicine.

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These data were collected from the primary literature guided by the Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network [GIDEON; a real-time database geared toward medical practitioners to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of human infectious disease]

Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases

PNAS – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

GIDEON … founded in 1992, is the world’s premier global infectious disease knowledge management tool. It is an online application that helps users diagnose infectious diseases and stay up to date on the latest trends in epidemiology and treatment.

Doody’s Collection Development Monthly Publisher Profile

A total of 347 infectious diseases of clinical importance were selected for review based on the GIDEON database, accessed November 2010. GIDEON is an infectious disease information and diagnostic resource available online through subscription that derives its content from a range of sources including formal peer-reviewed journals and informal sources such as Ministry of Health reports.

Global mapping of infectious disease

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Those searching for practical answers about causality, transmissible agents, disease etiology, global prevalence or current treatments might want to search GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Online Network), an interesting “niche” information source targeting the research requirements of epidemiologists, clinical & translational researchers, MPH students, toxicologists or anyone interested in tracking or diagnosing infectious diseases on a country- or worldwide scale (subscription required).

Teaching & Learning in Medicine, Research Methodology, Biostatistics: Show Me the Evidence (Part 4): Causality, Airplanes and GIDEON

EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC

Every infectious diseases program should have a subscription to Gideon, Dr. Keystone said. Plug in the pertinent facts regarding a case and Gideon spits out the complete differential diagnosis, with the possibilities rank-ordered and accompanying treatment recommendations…“Gideon is probably the best geographic, computer-based, online program for infectious diseases that I know of. You don’t have to be smart to know everything about tropical medicine. If you’re looking for something to help you diagnose tropical diseases, this would be the one,” he said.

Fever in Returned Traveler: Think Malaria First

Family Practice News

“…there is no doubt that travel medicine practitioners, infectious disease physicians and microbiologists in need of a serious database will have to consider GIDEON”

Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases

“…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

“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

“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

“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

“…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

“GIDEON is an up-to-date and comprehensive resource for Geographic Medicine”

International Journal of Health Geographics

… 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

“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

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

When Alexander’s clinical symptoms were listed on GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemi0logy Network) …

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

“… 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

“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

“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

“This program is highly recommended for travel medicine, tropical medicine, and infectious disease practitioners, particularly those residing in teaching institutions.”

American Society of Microbiology (ASM)

“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

GIDEON, a computer program for diagnosis…

Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC

“The correct diagnosis appeared in 95% of cases…”

Infectious Disease Clinical Practices

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

Clinical Infectious Diseases

A Computer-Driven Bayesian Matrix For The Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

The original GIDEON paper

Computer Program for Diagnosing and Teaching Geographic Medicine

Journal of Travel Medicine