Risk management in psychiatry.
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.
Tan
M W
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Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
McDonough
W J
WJ
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