Su Y, Yoon S S
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;2003:1023.
Epi Info is a suite of public domain computer programs for public health professionals developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Epi Info is used for rapid questionnaire design, data entry and validation, data analysis including mapping and graphing, and creation of reports. Epi Info was originally created in 1985 using Turbo Pascal. In 1998, the last version of Epi Info for DOS, version 6, was released. Epi Info for DOS is currently supported by CDC but is no longer updated. The current version, Epi Info 2002, is Windows-based software developed using Microsoft Visual Basic. Approximately 300,000 downloads of Epi Info software occurred in 2002 from approximately 130 countries. These numbers make Epi Info probably one of the most widely distributed and used public domain programs in the world. The DOS version of Epi Info was translated into 13 languages, and efforts are underway to translate the Windows version into other major languages. Versions already exist for Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic.
Epi Info是美国疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)为公共卫生专业人员开发的一套公共领域计算机程序。Epi Info用于快速设计调查问卷、数据录入与验证、数据分析(包括绘图和制表)以及生成报告。Epi Info最初于1985年使用Turbo Pascal创建。1998年,发布了Epi Info的最后一个DOS版本,即版本6。CDC目前仍支持Epi Info的DOS版本,但不再进行更新。当前版本Epi Info 2002是使用Microsoft Visual Basic开发的基于Windows的软件。2002年,来自约130个国家的用户对Epi Info软件的下载量约为30万次。这些数据使Epi Info可能成为世界上分布最广、使用最多的公共领域程序之一。Epi Info的DOS版本已被翻译成13种语言,目前正在努力将Windows版本翻译成其他主要语言。目前已有西班牙语、法语、葡萄牙语、中文、日语和阿拉伯语版本。