CDC WONDER

We first looked at CDC Wonder a couple of issues ago (RR 2016/261). The focus of the earlier review was very much on the mortality statistics available in the database, so here we take a wider look at the data it contains. CDC WONDER (the “WONDER” acronym is derived from Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research) allows for easy access for health, nursing and medical students, as well as policy makers, to about 20 collections of data for US births, deaths, cancer, tuberculosis (TB) cases, vaccinations, environmental exposures and much more. It is easy to tailor the search to...