risk management

Preferred Label : risk management;

MeSH 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);

MeSH synonym : management, risks; management, risk; risks management;

CISMeF synonym : management risk; management risks; managements, risks; risk, management; risks managements; risks, management;

MeSH hyponym : Incident Reporting; reporting, hospital incident; Reportings, Hospital Incident; Reportings, Hospital Risk; Hospital Risk Reporting; Hospital Risk Reportings; Reporting, Hospital Risk; Risk Reporting, Hospital; Risk Reportings, Hospital; Incident Reportings, Hospital; Incident Reporting, Hospital; Hospital Incident Reportings; Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting; Hospital Incident Reporting; Incident Reportings; Reporting, Incident; Reportings, Incident;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk management;

Details

Origin ID

D012308;

UMLS CUI

C0035649;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Incident reporting (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Risk Manager [NCIt concept]
- Risk management administration (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- reporting of incident [ICPS Descriptor]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Risk management [UNESCO concept]
- Risk management (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- health risk management [Q-code]
- risk management [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
Metaterm(s)
- risk management [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- Incident Reporting [MeSH concept]
- reporting, hospital incident [MeSH concept]
- risk management [MeSH concept]
See also
- medical errors [MeSH Descriptor]
- patient safety [MeSH Descriptor]
- truth disclosure [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- risk [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
Validated automatic mappings to NTBT
- risk management [CISMeF Metaterm]

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