title: Measuring and managing risk improves strategic financial planning.
abstract: Strategic financial risk assessment is a practical technique that can enable healthcare strategic decision makers to perform quantitative analyses of the financial risks associated with a given strategic initiative. The technique comprises six steps: (1) list risk factors that might significantly influence the outcomes, (2) establish best-guess estimates for assumptions regarding how each risk factor will affect its financial outcomes, (3) identify risk factors that are likely to have the greatest impact, (4) assign probabilities to assumptions, (5) determine potential scenarios associated with combined assumptions, and (6) determine the probability-weighted average of the potential scenarios.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Kleinmuntz
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Kleinmuntz
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Stephen
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Nordlund
mesh_terms: D003361:Cost Allocation; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics*; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D005544:Forecasting; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D010934:Planning Techniques; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States