title: Risk management in psychiatry.
abstract: This article introduces some basic concepts of psychiatric risk management and demonstrates how risk management and quality assurance can work together. Risk exposure areas and loss prevention issues identified during a review of 98 psychiatric claims managed from 1976 to 1988 by the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions are detailed.
authors.affiliation: Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: McDonough
mesh_terms: D005251:Fees, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011570:Psychiatry; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013405:Suicide; D014754:Violence