Risk Management

The process of minimizing risk to an organization by developing systems to identify and analyze potential hazards to prevent accidents, injuries, and other adverse occurrences, and by attempting to handle events and incidents which do occur in such a manner that their effect and cost are minimized. Effective risk management has its greatest benefits in application to insurance in order to avert or minimize financial liability. (From Slee and Slee: Health care terms, 2d ed)

Year introduced: 1990(1980)

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Tree Number(s): N03.219.463.800, N04.452.871

MeSH Unique ID: D012308

Entry Terms:

• Management, Risk
• Management, Risks
• Risks Management
• Reporting, Hospital Incident
• Reportings, Hospital Incident
• Hospital Incident Reporting
• Reportings, Hospital Risk
• Hospital Risk Reporting
• Hospital Risk Reportings
• Reporting, Hospital Risk
• Risk Reporting, Hospital
• Risk Reportings, Hospital
• Hospital Incident Reportings
• Incident Reportings, Hospital
• Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting
• Incident Reporting, Hospital
• Incident Reporting
• Incident Reportings
• Reporting, Incident
• Reportings, Incident

Previous Indexing:

• Insurance, Liability (1966-1979)
• Malpractice (1966-1979)

See Also:

• Medical Errors
• Patient Safety

All MeSH Categories
Health Care Category
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Economics
Financial Management
Risk Management
Risk Sharing, Financial

All MeSH Categories
Health Care Category
Health Services Administration
Organization and Administration
Risk Management
Risk Assessment
Adverse Outcome Pathways
Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
Risk Adjustment
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation
Risk Sharing, Financial
Safety Management
Material Safety Data Sheets