Is GIDEON an Evidence based medicine (EBM) database?
Yes, since all sources are all peer-reviewed and are backed by scientific evidence – most are considered the premier scientific sources. Poor, uncontrolled, or poorly-analyzed studies cannot appear in these publications. This also holds for websites used in maintaining GIDEON. Virtually all are governmental sites. Reputable computer lists in the field are used, in a manner which fits the standards of evidenced-based medicine. For example, although ProMED is considered THE site for new and ongoing outbreaks, many of its own sources consist of newspapers and news agencies. Therefore we only use references to ProMED in circumstances where they provide the only citations for a given outbreak (often in underdeveloped and remote regions these will be the only sources that will ever become available) and as new information sources become available those are included. The reference feature in GIDEON further supports GIDEON as an Evidence Based Medicine database by allowing the user to view all
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