Risk Management - Standards
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Monday, November 23, 2009

[Quality management: protocols for reporting in-hospital emergencies. Comparison of two methods]

19 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: 10-20% of hospitalized patients experience adverse events, becoming clinically relevant in emergency situations (ES). Many studies have confirmed deficits in both organizational and professional aspects of care when ... Read more...

Patient safety: Part II. Opportunities for improvement in patient safety.

30 Jul 2009 The quality movement in medicine has prompted a shift from a "name, shame, blame" approach to medical errors to one in which each error is regarded as an opportunity to prevent future patient harm. This new culture of patient safety requires the ... Read more...

[Measuring patient safety--why and how?]

9 May 2009 Patient safety measurement from e.g. indicators, audits and questionnaires is used for risk management. Five years after the Danish Act on Patient Safety came into force, it remains unknown if health care is getting safer. The perspective of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Risk Management - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Quality management: protocols for reporting in-hospital emergencies. Comparison of two methods] 19 Oct 2009
• [Medical product safety and patient safety--challenges at the "human-medical product" interface] 10 Aug 2009
• Pulling the plug on ad hoc critical incident training. 30 Jul 2009
• Patient safety: Part II. Opportunities for improvement in patient safety. 30 Jul 2009
• Too small to overlook. 7 Jul 2009
• [Measuring patient safety--why and how?] 9 May 2009
• Consensus guidelines for periprocedural management of coagulation status and hemostasis risk in percutaneous image-guided interventions. 23 Apr 2009
• Contrast medium induced nephropathy: new insights into prevention and risk management. 30 Mar 2009
• Review: necessary for protection even in minimal-risk research. 24 Mar 2009
• Governance of preanalytical variability: travelling the right path to the bright side of the moon? 16 Mar 2009
• The Italian strategy for patient safety. 15 Mar 2009
• FMEA: a model for reducing medical errors. 15 Mar 2009
• Standards for health care: a necessary but unknown quantity. 14 Mar 2009
• High reliability and implications for nursing leaders. 27 Feb 2009
• [Notification systems and adverse effect reporting] 21 Feb 2009
• A proposal to prevent severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and kernicterus. 30 Jan 2009
• I-CaRe: a case review tool focused on improving inpatient care. 30 Jan 2009
• [CONS-32: factor structure and psychometric properties] 30 Jan 2009
• [Novel therapeutics risk management] 30 Dec 2008
• Let's think about human factors, not human failings. 30 Dec 2008

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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