Health.Care | An Educational Blog

The Hawthorne Effect: What happens when no one's watching?

The 3 Cs of Vaccine Hesitancy

4 Critical Steps on the Path to Zero Harm

What Does Science Say About Masks In School? (It Says Wear Them)

The Box That Could Identify the Next Pandemic

In the 1920’s and 30’s, the nation was swept up in the Efficiency Movement, an effort to rid every aspect of human life of waste and unproductive...

Those of us who have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine may often wonder why everyone hasn't gotten the vaccine. It's free, effective, and virtually...

In earlier posts we discussed three major innovations that led to the formalization of infection control. Now we'll see what four elements make up a...

There are many headlines these days about the controversies surrounding re-opening schools with mask mandates. Some states are taking a surprising...

There is a newly released book that has risen quickly to top the best-sellers lists that is telling many unknown stories about the public health...

In the world of healthcare, there are so many acronyms (and some might say, euphemisms) for the deadly toll of medical errors and infections. Two...

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have covered the issue of variants, virus mutations that affect the way SARS-CoV-2 moves around the...

Medical students have made the same promise since the dawn of health care: First, do no harm. Despite living by this maxim, medical staff are human....

Global events have a long history of impacting the Olympic Games. World wars have cancelled the modern Olympic games three times, political boycotts...

The idea of going to the hospital can be scary enough without even thinking of the possibility of getting a hospital-acquired infection (HAI)....

We live in an environment teeming with microscopic organisms. They cover not only the surfaces we touch, but also our skin and even our insides. We...

Last week concluded our series on what the world will look like post-COVID. In our first post, we covered changes made during the pandemic that we...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

The Hawthorne Effect: What happens when no one's watching?

The 3 Cs of Vaccine Hesitancy

4 Critical Steps on the Path to Zero Harm

What Does Science Say About Masks In School? (It Says Wear Them)

The Box That Could Identify the Next Pandemic

The Hawthorne Effect: What happens when no one's watching?

The 3 Cs of Vaccine Hesitancy

4 Critical Steps on the Path to Zero Harm

What Does Science Say About Masks In School? (It Says Wear Them)

The Box That Could Identify the Next Pandemic

Hospital Acquired Conditions vs. Hospital Acquired Infections: The Differences

The Delta Variant: 5 Things To Know

What is a Preventable Adverse Event?

How The Tokyo Olympics Are Controlling COVID

5 Things You Can Do To Avoid A Hospital-Acquired Infection

3 Reasons Why Patients Get Infections

Post-COVID Preparation [infographic]