| Descriptor English: | Risk Management | ||||||
| Descriptor Spanish: |
Gestión de Riesgos
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Gestão de Riscos | ||||||
| Descriptor French: | Gestion du risque | ||||||
| Entry term(s): |
Hospital Incident Reporting Hospital Incident Reportings Hospital Risk Reporting Hospital Risk Reportings Incident Reporting Incident Reporting, Hospital Incident Reportings Incident Reportings, Hospital Management, Risk Management, Risks Reporting, Hospital Incident Reporting, Hospital Risk Reporting, Incident Reportings, Hospital Incident Reportings, Hospital Risk Reportings, Incident Risk Reporting, Hospital Risk Reportings, Hospital Risks Management Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting |
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| Tree number(s): |
N03.219.463.800 N04.452.871 |
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| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012308 | ||||||
| Scope note: | 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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| Allowable Qualifiers: |
CL classification EC economics ES ethics HI history LJ legislation & jurisprudence MT methods OG organization & administration SN statistics & numerical data ST standards TD trends |
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| Previous Indexing: |
Insurance, Liability (1966-1979) Malpractice (1966-1979) |
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| Public MeSH Note: | 90; was see under FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 1980-89 |
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| History Note: | 90(80); was see under FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 1980-89 |
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| Related: |
Medical Errors
MeSH Patient Safety MeSH | ||||||
| DeCS ID: | 12720 | ||||||
| Unique ID: | D012308 | ||||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
| Date Established: | 1990/01/01 | ||||||
| Date of Entry: | 1978/12/22 | ||||||
| Revision Date: | 2015/07/08 |
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Risk Management
- Preferred
Reporting, Hospital Incident
- Narrower
Incident Reporting
- Narrower
| Concept UI |
M0019130 |
| Scope note | 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) |
| Preferred term | Risk Management |
| Entry term(s) |
Management, Risk Management, Risks Risks Management |
| Concept UI |
M0019131 |
| Preferred term | Reporting, Hospital Incident |
| Entry term(s) |
Hospital Incident Reporting Hospital Incident Reportings Hospital Risk Reporting Hospital Risk Reportings Incident Reporting, Hospital Incident Reportings, Hospital Reporting, Hospital Risk Reportings, Hospital Incident Reportings, Hospital Risk Risk Reporting, Hospital Risk Reportings, Hospital Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting |
| Concept UI |
M000599803 |
| Preferred term | Incident Reporting |
| Entry term(s) |
Incident Reportings Reporting, Incident Reportings, Incident |
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