Physician burnout is associated with a reduction in care quality, a Sept. 14 study published in The BMJ found.

Medication safety is the core focus of the World Health Organization's 2022 World Patient Safety Day, held annually on Sept. 17. 

Arlington-based Texas Health Resources is the 2022 recipient of the American Society for Health Care Risk Management's Patient Safety Award, the health system said Sept. 14.

Flushing the nasal cavity with a mild saline solution may significantly reduce the risk of hospitalization and death after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a recent study published in Ear, Nose & Throat Journal.

There isn't enough evidence to support widespread screening of Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents in the U.S., a panel of national experts on disease prevention said Sept. 13. 

Some long COVID-19 patients still have impaired or loss of smell one year after symptom onset, suggesting the condition could be permanent, according to a small study published Sept. 8 in JAMA Network Open.

A 21-year-old man died after falling from a roof at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., on Sept. 9, according to the Journal Star.

The U.S. reached a historic medical milestone Sept. 9, recording its millionth organ transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. 

State abortion laws are limiting patients' access to medically necessary drugs and hindering clinicians from using their professional judgment, four medical groups said in a joint statement Sept. 8.

Psychological distress — including depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress and loneliness — prior to COVID-19 infection was associated with an increased risk for long COVID-19, a new study from Boston-based Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found. 

A 60-year-old security guard is in critical condition after being shot in a robbery on the campus of Kaiser Permanente San Leandro (Calif.) Medical Center Sept. 7. 

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville, N.J.,recently performed its first gender affirmation surgery for a transgender woman, making it one of only two hospitals in the state to offer such procedures. 

Patient falls were the most common sentinel event reported among hospitals in the first six months of 2022, according to a Sept. 7 report from The Joint Commission.

Forehead thermometers are not as accurate as oral thermometers in detecting fevers among hospitalized Black patients, according to a study led by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta. 

Forty-four percent of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 this spring were fully vaccinated and boosted, CDC data shows.

Nightmares became more prevalent among adults during the pandemic, according to a study published Aug. 26 in Nature and Science of Sleep.

A patient with a monkeypox infection in Portugal developed myocarditis, or heart muscle inflammation, a week after the onset of monkeypox symptoms, researchers said in a case report published Sept. 2. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs will offer abortion counseling and abortions in certain cases to pregnant veterans and beneficiaries. 

The Joint Commission has launched a new patient safety campaign that focuses on telehealth visits, the organization said Aug. 31.

A system that required patients to use hand bells to call for help led to the death of a patient at Gallup, N.M.-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital in January, Source New Mexico reported Aug. 30.