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$695 per year (individual), also available as 4 CDs per year, free 30-day trial available, Los Angeles, Calif, GIDEON Informatics, http://www.gideononline.com, 2005.

JAMA. 2005;293:1674-1675.

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GIDEON: The Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network is a superbly designed expert system created to help physicians diagnose any infectious disease (337 recognized) in any country of the world (224 included). The program was created and has been progressively refined over more than a decade by a talented group of Americans, Canadians, and Israelis. GIDEON is now available in Internet and CD-ROM versions, under an individual or institutional license, each including updates. This diagnostic system is remarkable for its ease of use, breadth of scope, and depth of information. It is as practical a program as one could hope for.

GIDEON contains four operational modules, which are seamlessly integrated. The first, "Diagnosis," requests specific clinical signs and symptoms, which one enters by checking boxes in a simple but comprehensive tree of terms and statements (eg, "fever"; "the patient is an adult"). Particular attention is paid to basic clinical findings, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Vincent J. Felitti, MD, Reviewer
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
San Diego, California
VJFMDSDCA@msn.com