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Friday, November 20, 2009

Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency.

30 Oct 2009 We reviewed and classified all patient safety incidents submitted from critical care units in England and Wales to the National Patient Safety Agency for the first quarter of 2008. A total of 6649 incidents were submitted from 141 organisations ... Read more...

[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...

Sustainable risk management of emerging contaminants in municipal wastewaters.

11 Oct 2009 The presence of emerging contaminants in municipal wastewaters, particularly endocrine-disrupting compounds such as oestrogenic substances, has been the focus of much public concern and scientific attention in recent years. Due to the scientific ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Risk Management'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency. 30 Oct 2009
• Giving patients their results online might be the answer. 24 Oct 2009
• Informatics aids to reduce failure rates in notification of abnormal outpatient test results. 24 Oct 2009
• EMRs do not improve reporting rates of abnormal laboratory results? 24 Oct 2009
• [Legal equality or tombola?] 20 Oct 2009
• [Quality management: protocols for reporting in-hospital emergencies. Comparison of two methods] 19 Oct 2009
• Sustainable risk management of emerging contaminants in municipal wastewaters. 11 Oct 2009
• Clinical audits. Paper or patient safety? 10 Oct 2009
• [Risk analysis in radiotherapy] 17 Sep 2009
• QUARITE (quality of care, risk management and technology in obstetrics): a cluster-randomized trial of a multifaceted intervention to improve emergency obstetric care in Senegal and Mali. 16 Sep 2009
• [Legal basis for the hygienic processing of medicinal products] 9 Sep 2009
• World Stroke Day 2009: what can I do? 8 Sep 2009
• Integrating nine prescription opioid analgesics and/or four signal detection systems to summarize statewide prescription drug abuse in the United States in 2007. 30 Aug 2009
• Exploring whether student nurses report poor practice they have witnessed on placements. 30 Aug 2009
• Treatment of bipolar disorders and metabolic syndrome: implications for primary care. 30 Aug 2009
• The impact of weight gain on motivation, compliance, and metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. 30 Aug 2009
• Self disclosure. How to manage the risk of Medicare fraud and abuse. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of self-reported occupational exposures in meatpacking workers. 30 Aug 2009
• Biomechanics/risk management (Working Group 2). 30 Aug 2009
• The Second EAO Consensus Conference 19-22 February 2009, Pfäffikon, Switzerland. Preface. 30 Aug 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