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.
- Descriptive data analysis
- Epidemic intelligence
- Rapid Risk Assessment
- Surveillance - Principles
- Criteria for Surveillance
- Event-based Surveillance
- Indicator-based Surveillance
- Objectives of Surveillance – Inputs and Outputs
- Opportunities and Challenges
- Surveillance or Research?
- The Components of Surveillance
- The Role of Surveillance
- Field Epidemiology
- Combining Studies: Meta-Analysis
- Key definitions in infectious diseases epidemiology
- Measurement in Field Epidemiology
- Testing the Tests
- Methods in Field Epidemiology
- Scientific (evidence base for prevention)
- Types of Study
- Descriptive Studies
- Experimental Studies
- Outbreak Investigations
- Case definitions for outbreak assessment
- Confirm the outbreak
- Types of Outbreak
- Describe the outbreak
- Informing Action / Improving Knowledge
- Investigations in Special Circumstances
- Outbreak investigations: 10 steps, 10 pitfalls
- Outbreak steps : additional points
- Rationale for Outbreak Investigations
- The outbreak management team
- Formal Risk Assessment
- Health Economics
- Screening
- Aide memoire for oral presentations and visual aids
- Health communication
- Writing a Study Protocol
- Analysing a public health problem
- Checklist for study protocols
- Data collection instrument
- Questionnaire Design
- Writing for Publications
- Writing for Stakeholders
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Healthcare-associated infection prevention and control as a part of patient safety programme
- Healthcare-associated infection prevention and control programme
- Cooperative learning as active learning in adult
- Education and training of staff
- Healthcare-associated infections and risk assessment
- Burden of HAIs
- Main pathogens and resistance
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Acquired resistance
- Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance
- Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO)
- Types of HAIs
- CAUTI
- CLABSI
- SSI
- VAP
- [[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
- Gloves and hand hygiene
- Hand hygiene - principles
- Five moments for hand hygiene
- Hand hygiene before invasive procedures
- Hand hygiene for patients and visitors
- Indications for hand hygiene
- Hand hygiene education and promotion
- Hand hygiene methods
- Hand hygiene products selection and evaluation
- Aesthetic preferences
- Evaluation of the microbicidal activities of hand-rub and hand-wash agents
- Pilot testing
- Product accessibility and cost
- Selection and evaluation for specific products
- Microbial flora of the hands
- Nails, rings, watches, bracelets
- Skin care
- 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
- Clinical role of the microbiology laboratory
- Epidemiological/public health role of the clinical microbiology laboratory
- 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
- European surveillance of healthcare-associated infections
- ECDC PPS in acute care hospitals
- ECDC PPS in European acute care hospitals protocol
- ECDC PPS in European acute care hospitals, definition of HAI
- ECDC PPS - antimicrobial use definition
- ECDC PPS - inclusion/exclusion criteria
- 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
- ECDC Programme on antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections
- European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net)
- European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network (ESAC-Net)
- Healthcare-Associated Infections Network (HAI-Net)
- Surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections
- Surveillance of HAIs in intensive care units
- The European Surveillance System (TESSy)
- Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections - definition
- Surveillance methodologies for healthcare associated infections
- Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections - other approaches
- Surveillance for MV Patients in the ICU
- Public Health Informatics
- Apps for epidemiologists
- Data Capture Systems
- Electronic Data Transfer
- Online Reporting
- Web-crawling Applications
- Health Informatics Standards – general introduction
- Health Informatics Standards - Health Information Systems and Processes
- Health Informatics Standards - Standard Content
- Software for epidemiologists
- Weblinks for epidemiologists
- Public Health Interventions
- Contact tracing
- Host
- Prevention
- Hygiene and Sanitation
- Primary prevention
- Vaccination
- Herd immunity
- Measuring protection
- Secondary prevention
- Tertiary prevention
- Reservoir for infectious agents
- Source of infection
- Transmission routes
- Public Health Law
- Brief history of International Communicable Disease Law
- EU Public Health Legislation
- Decision 1082/2013/EU: Serious cross border health threat
- Some key recitals under 1082
- EU Food Safety Legislation
- EU Legislation for Communicable Diseases Surveillance
- International Health Regulations 2005 edition
- Applying Epidemiology for the International Health Regulations.
- Public Health Microbiology
- Applied Immunology
- Antibodies
- Antigen presenting cells (APC)
- Antigens (Ag)
- How pathogens try to trick our defenses
- Helminthic mechanisms of immune evasion
- Mechanism of infectious disease
- What determines our susceptibility to infections?
- Practical Aspects of Specimen Collection and Shipment
- The Role of Microbiology
- Bioinformatics
- Expert Advice
- Laboratory Support
- Types of Microorganisms
- Public Health Programs
- Models
- Logistic Regression
- Estimating Odds Ratios in the presence of interaction
- Fitting logistic regression models
- Interpreting model coefficients
- Linear models
- Model building strategies
- The logistic model
- Stratified Analysis
- The Mantel Haenszel Method
- Power and Sample Size
- Presenting Statistics
- Sampling
- Concepts in sampling
- Statistical Tests
- Significance and Confidence
- Confidence Intervals
- Significant probability to be different from the expected
- The idea of Statistical Inference
