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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)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Risk Management" by people in this website by year, and whether "Risk Management" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 34 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2010
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