The Use of an Emergency Department Screen Saver Linked to Web Resources to Raise Awareness of Bioterrorist Threats.

Abstract An emergency department screen-saver linked to web-based reference materials was developed for healthcare providers to raise their index of suspicion of bioterrorist agents in patients presenting with flu-like symptoms. Web-based materials were released for general use in October, 2001, with high traffic volume on the site as health care professionals scrambled to review anthrax information.