FEM-WIKI
Welcome
The Field Epidemiology Manual was originally developed in 2007 by the ECDC to support the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET). Trainers, supervisors, scientific coordinators, and facilitators created draft chapters using the lectures they delivered during the EPIET introductory course. The philosophy of sharing and building knowledge (in particular training materials) led to the creation of a collaborative information space for the epidemiological training community - The FEM Wiki.
Eventually, the ECDC decommissioned the FEM Wiki in 2022 and archived the last version as a PDF. Since FEM Wiki content was developed under Creative Commons, the Dutch Public Health Learning Support Company Transmissible decided to reinstall the Field Epidemiology manual as it was intended: a professional collaborative platform.
The FEMWiki aims to create a library of training materials for field epidemiologists.
FEM Wiki is an open information-sharing platform for all professionals and the lay public interested in public health. It is hosted and funded by ECDC. The content of FEM Wiki is provided by platform users and does not necessarily represent the official opinion of Transmissible BV. By contributing content to FEMWIKI, users agree to the conditions described under Creative Commons and FEM Wiki users’ code of conduct.
Article Portal
The FEMWIKI is organised into five main chapters. Below is a portal with links to each chapter's main pages.
Infection control and hospital hygiene
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Healthcare-associated infection prevention and control as a part of patient safety programme
- Healthcare-associated infections and risk assessment
- Infection control interventions
- Cohorting patients and/or staff
- Contact precautions
- Developing infection control interventions: isolation
- Environment as a source of healthcare-associated infections
- Hand hygiene
- Hospital cleaning and decontamination
- Immunization of health care workers
- Isolation of patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)
- Methods for assessing environmental cleanliness
- Microbial typing
- Molecular epidemiology
- Pre-emptive isolation
- Reprocessing of flexible endoscopes
- Standard precautions
- The role of the clinical microbiology laboratory in infection prevention and control
- Surveillance and investigation of healthcare-associated infections
- Case definitions of healthcare infections
- HAI case definitions for use in hospitals
- Bloodstream Infection
- Bone and Joint Infection
- Cardiovascular System Infection
- Catheter-Related Infection
- Central Nervous System Infection
- Eye, Ear, Nose or Mouth Infection
- Gastrointestinal System Infections
- Lower Respiratory Tract Infection other than pneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Reproductive Tract Infections
- Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
- Specific Neonatal Case definitions
- Surgical Site Infection
- Systemic Infections
- Urinary Tract Infection
- HAI case definitions for use in hospitals
- European surveillance of healthcare-associated infections
- ECDC PPS in acute care hospitals
- ECDC point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in long term care facilities
- ECDC surveillance of Surgical Site Infections
- HAI Surveillance at the EU level - importance of international networks
- Surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections
- Surveillance of HAIs in intensive care units
- The European Surveillance System (TESSy)
- Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections - definition
- Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections - other approaches
- Case definitions of healthcare infections
