Risk Management

"Risk Management" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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 ID	D012308
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.463.800 N04.452.871
Concept/Terms	Risk Management Risk Management Management, Risk Management, Risks Risks Management Reporting, Hospital Incident 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 Reporting Incident Reporting Incident Reportings Reporting, Incident Reportings, Incident

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Risk Management".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Financial Management [N03.219.463]
Risk Management [N03.219.463.800]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Organization and Administration [N04.452]
Risk Management [N04.452.871]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Risk Management".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Risk Management".

Risk Management
Risk Sharing, Financial

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Bar chart showing 39 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	1	2
1999	0	1	1
2000	1	0	1
2001	1	1	2
2002	1	0	1
2004	1	0	1
2005	2	0	2
2006	1	2	3
2007	0	1	1
2008	2	0	2
2009	1	0	1
2010	0	1	1
2011	0	2	2
2012	0	1	1
2013	0	1	1
2015	0	1	1
2016	0	3	3
2017	0	1	1
2018	1	3	4
2019	2	1	3
2020	1	1	2
2021	1	0	1
2024	0	1	1
2025	1	0	1

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Martins NRS, Martinez EZ, Sim?es CM, Barach PR, Carmona MJC. Analyzing and mitigating the risks of patient harm during operating room to intensive care unit patient handoffs. Int J Qual Health Care. 2025 Jan 17; 37(1).

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Gollomp SM, Khalifian S, Gokhale S. Mitigating Immunogenicity by Coordinating Botulinum Toxin Treatments Between Aesthetics and Therapeutics. Dermatol Surg. 2024 09 01; 50(9S):S35-S37.

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Warm EJ, Ahmad Y, Kinnear B, Kelleher M, Sall D, Wells A, Barach P. A Dynamic Risk Management Approach for Reducing Harm From Invasive Bedside Procedures Performed During Residency. Acad Med. 2021 09 01; 96(9):1268-1275.

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Arnal-Velasco D, Barach P. Anaesthesia and perioperative incident reporting systems: Opportunities and challenges. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2021 May; 35(1):93-103.

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Kumar S, Chmura S, Robinson C, Lin SH, Gadgeel SM, Donington J, Feliciano J, Stinchcombe TE, Werner-Wasik M, Edelman MJ, Moghanaki D. Alternative Multidisciplinary Management Options for Locally Advanced NSCLC During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Global Pandemic. J Thorac Oncol. 2020 07; 15(7):1137-1146.

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Diemer G, Jaffe R, Papanagnou D, Zhang XC, Zavodnick J. Patient Safety Escape Room: A Graduate Medical Education Simulation for Event Reporting. MedEdPORTAL. 2019 12 27; 15:10868.

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Sanduende-Otero Y, Villal?n-Coca J, Romero-Garc?a E, D?az-Cambronero ?, Barach P, Arnal-Velasco D. Patterns in medication incidents: A 10-yr experience of a cross-national anaesthesia incident reporting system. Br J Anaesth. 2020 02; 124(2):197-205.

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Cooper RL, Fogarty-Mack P, Kroll HR, Barach P. Medication Safety in Anesthesia: Epidemiology, Causes, and Lessons Learned in Achieving Reliable Patient Outcomes. Int Anesthesiol Clin. 2019; 57(3):78-95.

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Thourani VH, O'Brien SM, Kelly JJ, Cohen DJ, Peterson ED, Mack MJ, Shahian DM, Grover FL, Carroll JD, Brennan JM, Forcillo J, Arnold SV, Vemulapalli S, Fitzgerald S, Holmes DR, Bavaria JE, Edwards FH. Development and Application of a Risk Prediction Model for In-Hospital Stroke After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A?Report From The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of?Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. Ann Thorac Surg. 2019 04; 107(4):1097-1103.

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Chen LY, Chung MK, Allen LA, Ezekowitz M, Furie KL, McCabe P, Noseworthy PA, Perez MV, Turakhia MP. Atrial Fibrillation Burden: Moving Beyond Atrial Fibrillation as a Binary Entity: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2018 05 15; 137(20):e623-e644.

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