Health Care

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 & Slee: Health care terms, 2d ed)

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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 & Slee: Health care terms, 2d ed)

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Synonyms

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

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10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

90(80); was see under FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 1980-89

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Previous Indexing

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

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Risk Management. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012308. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012308
  2. Risk Management. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management
  3. Risk Management. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189447