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GIDEON database webinar 7th September 2023

Interested in learning more about the GIDEON Infectious Diseases database? Why not join our live webinar on Thursday 7th September 2023 from 12 noon to 1.00pm

If this is the first time you've heard about GIDEON, here's what you need to know…

GIDEON® (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network), with its unmatched depth of content, is globally acknowledged as the most exhaustive database of its kind and the definitive resource in the field of Infectious Diseases. Used in 217 countries and territories, it serves as an exceptional platform for professionals and educators in microbiology, public health, and medical fields, owing to its comprehensive data collection and robust interactive toolkit.
Renowned organizations and academic institutions, including the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Emory, and McGill universities, along with esteemed healthcare entities such as the VA New England Healthcare System and Holy Cross Hospital, place their trust in GIDEON®'s robust data and interactive tools. GIDEON® is updated daily by a multidisciplinary team of highly regarded medical scientists.

Content by numbers:

• 306,000+ hand-picked, quality references
• 100,000+ prevalence and seroprevalence surveys
• 27,000+ outbreaks, going back to 1348AD
• 38,000+ graphs
• 24,000+ country notes
• 15,000+ case series
• 3,000+ images
• 30,000+ drug and vaccine trade names
• 235 countries and territories, monitored daily
• 2,000+ medically important pathogens
• 145 laboratory tests
• 425 eBooks

Unique features for research:

• INTERACTIVE MAPS: GIDEON® interactive disease outbreaks and distribution maps present 27,000+ spatially and temporally resolved records from as far back as 1348 AD.
• DYNAMIC COMPARISON TABLES: These tools allow for side-by-side comparisons of diseases, drugs, bacteria, mycobacteria, and yeasts - up to 10 at a time.
• DYNAMIC CHARTS GENERATION: The unique Quantify module lets analysts combine over 38,000 epidemiological graphs to create downloadable charts.
• TOOLS FOR DATA ANALYSIS: REST API, R and Python wrappers are available for easy programmatic data retrieval and analysis

Unique point-of-care features:

• BAYESIAN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS TOOLKIT (DDx): GIDEON®'s clinical decision support tools, powered by an extensive amount of published medical research and geographical medicine data.
• FIRST CASE SCENARIO: Developed in consultation with the World Health Organization, this feature identifies the initial cases of known diseases in new settings.
• WHY NOT: If a suspected disease did not appear on the list, this feature provides an explanation.

Unique laboratory features:

• DIFFERENTIAL PATHOGEN IDENTIFICATION: This unique tool supports Bayesian-driven identification of over 2,000 bacteria, mycobacteria, and yeasts.
• DYNAMIC DECISION TREES: Faculty and students can dynamically generate and export decision trees, eliminating the need for hand-drawn dichotomous keys and saving valuable time. This feature also includes a differential pathogen probability list.

WHY NOT: This tool explains why a suspected pathogen did not appear on the list.