Risk Assessment

"Risk Assessment" 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 qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)

Descriptor ID	D018570
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.740.600.800.715 N04.452.871.715 N05.715.360.750.625.700.690 N06.850.505.715 N06.850.520.830.600.800.715
Concept/Terms	Risk Assessment Risk Assessment Assessments, Risk Risk Assessments Health Risk Assessment Assessment, Health Risk Assessments, Health Risk Health Risk Assessments Risk Assessment, Health Risk Assessments, Health Assessment, Risk Risks and Benefits Risks and Benefits Benefits and Risks Benefit-Risk Assessment Benefit-Risk Assessment Assessment, Benefit-Risk Assessments, Benefit-Risk Benefit Risk Assessment Benefit-Risk Assessments Risk-Benefit Assessment Assessment, Risk-Benefit Assessments, Risk-Benefit Risk Benefit Assessment Risk-Benefit Assessments

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

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Epidemiologic Methods [E05.318]
Statistics as Topic [E05.318.740]
Probability [E05.318.740.600]
Risk [E05.318.740.600.800]
Risk Assessment [E05.318.740.600.800.715]
Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Organization and Administration [N04.452]
Risk Management [N04.452.871]
Risk Assessment [N04.452.871.715]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Statistics as Topic [N05.715.360.750]
Probability [N05.715.360.750.625]
Risk [N05.715.360.750.625.700]
Risk Assessment [N05.715.360.750.625.700.690]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Measurements [N06.850.505]
Risk Assessment [N06.850.505.715]
Epidemiologic Methods [N06.850.520]
Statistics as Topic [N06.850.520.830]
Probability [N06.850.520.830.600]
Risk [N06.850.520.830.600.800]
Risk Assessment [N06.850.520.830.600.800.715]

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

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

Risk Assessment
Adverse Outcome Pathways
Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Risk Assessment" by people in this website by year, and whether "Risk Assessment" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 2078 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 150 publications in 2017

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	2	2	4
1996	1	1	2
1997	0	3	3
1998	0	3	3
1999	0	11	11
2000	0	17	17
2001	1	18	19
2002	1	46	47
2003	1	59	60
2004	11	66	77
2005	7	72	79
2006	11	55	66
2007	10	67	77
2008	9	96	105
2009	11	88	99
2010	5	123	128
2011	0	114	114
2012	10	112	122
2013	10	83	93
2014	6	98	104
2015	19	101	120
2016	15	97	112
2017	20	130	150
2018	24	118	142
2019	26	85	111
2020	13	79	92
2021	9	56	65
2022	0	20	20
2023	0	12	12
2024	0	19	19
2025	0	5	5

Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk Assessment" by people in Profiles.

Karavite D, Terek S, Connolly JJ, Harr M, Muthu N, Hakonarson H, Grundmeier RW. A Comprehensive Approach to Clinical Decision Support in the Return of Genome Informed Risk Assessments to Primary Care Pediatricians. Appl Clin Inform. 2025 Jan; 16(1):193-204.

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Cheng RK, Roberts MB, Bansal N, Reding K, Salahuddin T, Mamas M, LaMonte M, Shadyab AH, Franceschini N, Klein L, Manson JE, Eaton CB. Association of Kidney Function With Incident Heart Failure: An Analysis of the Women's Health Initiative. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Mar 04; 14(5):e037051.

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Samuels L, Arce A, Agunbiade S, Raws S, Parsikia A. Beating-Heart Coronary Artery Bypass grafting (BH-CABG) in patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD): comparison of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) predicted risk with actual outcomes. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2025 Jan 27; 20(1):101.

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Averbuch T, Zafari A, Islam S, Lee SF, Sankaranarayanan R, Greene SJ, Mamas MA, Pandey A, Van Spall HG. Comparative performance of risk prediction indices for mortality or readmission following heart failure hospitalization. ESC Heart Fail. 2025 Apr; 12(2):1227-1236.

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Biscetti F, Polito G, Rando MM, Nicolazzi MA, Eraso LH, DiMuzio PJ, Massetti M, Gasbarrini A, Flex A. Residual Traditional Risk in Non-Traditional Atherosclerotic Diseases. Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Jan 10; 26(2).

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Yamashita Y, Sicouri S, Baudo M, Rodriguez R, Gnall EM, Coady PM, Jarrett H, Abramson SV, Hawthorne KM, Goldman SM, Gray WA, Ramlawi B. Impact of Atrial Fibrillation Type on Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Aortic Stenosis: A Single-Center Analysis. Tex Heart Inst J. 2024 Jul-Dec; 51(2):e248402.

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Hark LA, Wang Y, Gorroochurn P, Simon PR, Maruri SC, Henriquez DR, Diamond DF, Horowitz JD, Park L, Wang Q, Auran JD, Carrion J, Friedman DS, Liebmann JL, Cioffi GA, Harizman N. Manhattan Vision Screening and Follow-up Study (NYC-SIGHT): a nested cross-sectional assessment of falls risk within a cluster randomised trial. Br J Ophthalmol. 2024 Nov 22; 108(12):1761-1768.

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Qian F, Guo Y, Li C, Liu Y, Luttmann-Gibson H, Gomelskaya N, Demler OV, Cook NR, Lee IM, Buring JE, Larsen J, Boring J, McPhaul MJ, Manson JE, Pradhan AD, Mora S. Biomarkers of glucose-insulin homeostasis and incident type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease: results from the Vitamin D and Omega-3 trial. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2024 Nov 02; 23(1):393.

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Tumati A, Marshall TE, Greenspun B, Chen Z, Azar SA, Keutgen XM, Laird AM, Beninato T, Zarnegar R, Fahey TJ, Finnerty BM. Evaluating the clinical performance of an updated microRNA classifier in indeterminate and RAS-mutated thyroid nodule management: A multi-institutional study. Surgery. 2025 01; 177:108833.

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Braga F, Milani M, Espinosa G, Milani JGPO, Hansen D, Junior GC, Myers J, Mourilhe-Rocha R. Comparisons of percent-predicted peak oxygen uptake achieved on cardiopulmonary exercise testing: stratifying mortality risk by Wasserman, FRIEND, and Brazilian equations. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2024 Oct 10; 31(14):1734-1737.

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