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Risk Management - Organization & administration
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Definition of '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) |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Supporting staff recovery and reintegration after a critical incident resulting in infant death.
30 Jul 2009 
A critical incident is described as any sudden unexpected event that has the power to overwhelm the usual effective coping skills of an individual or a group and can cause significant psychological distress in usually healthy persons. A Just Culture ... Read more...
Common ground, not a battle ground. Violence prevention at a detoxification facility.
30 Jul 2009 This article evaluates the results of a workplace violence prevention program implemented in a Colorado detoxification facility. The program interventions are modeled after federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines and use ... Read more...
Wrong site surgery near misses and actual occurrences.
30 Jul 2009 Under coordination by the Patient Safety Authority, staff members in facilities across Pennsylvania analyzed 97 wrong site surgery near misses and 44 actual occurrences using a common analysis form from August 2007 to August 2008. These assessments ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Risk Management - Organization & administration'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Supporting staff recovery and reintegration after a critical incident resulting in infant death. 30 Jul 2009
- Common ground, not a battle ground. Violence prevention at a detoxification facility. 30 Jul 2009
- Wrong site surgery near misses and actual occurrences. 30 Jul 2009
- Radiology failure mode and effect analysis: what is it? 30 Jul 2009
- Enhancing safety reporting in adult ambulatory oncology with a clinician champion: a practice innovation. 29 Jun 2009
- Report of the International Conference on Risk Communication Strategies for BSL-4 laboratories, Tokyo, October 3-5, 2007. 30 May 2009
- [Learning from mistakes in hospitals. A system perspective on errors and incident reporting systems] 30 May 2009
- [Risk management and patient safety] 30 May 2009
- Trusts urged to challenge information on services.
30 May 2009 - Cardiff event discusses 'changing landscape'. 30 May 2009
- For opiate management, FDA pledges to balance enforcement, palliative care needs. 30 May 2009
- Polonium-210: lessons learned from the contamination of individual Canadians. 20 May 2009
- Emergency preparedness for higher risk populations: psychosocial considerations. 13 May 2009
- Issues, considerations and recommendations on emergency preparedness for vulnerable population groups. 10 May 2009
- When ageing and disasters collide: lessons from 16 international case studies. 9 May 2009
- Emergency preparedness of Research Center for Radiation Medicine and its hospital to admit and treat the patients with signs of acute radiation sickness. 6 May 2009
- Putting the puzzle together: reducing vulnerability through people-focused planning. 6 May 2009
- Therapeutic product disposition in at-risk populations. 5 May 2009
- Dealing with at-risk populations in radiological/nuclear emergencies. May 2009
- Implementation of a patient safety incident management system as viewed by doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. 29 Apr 2009
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Technical information about 'Risk Management'
Definition: 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)
Descriptor UI: D012308
Alternative terms: Risk Management; Management, Risk; Reportings, Hospital Risk; Hospital Risk Reporting; Hospital Risk Reportings; Reporting, Hospital Risk; Risk Reporting, Hospital; Risk Reportings, Hospital; Management Risk; Management Risks; Risk, Management; Risks, Management; Management, Risks; Managements, Risks; Risks Management; Risks Managements; Reporting, Hospital Incident; Reportings, Hospital Incident; Incident Reportings, Hospital; Hospital Incident Reportings; Hospital Incident Reporting; Incident Reporting, Hospital;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;
Tree Number: N03.219.463.800; N04.452.871;
History Note: 90(80); was see under FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 1980-89