Risk management

Risk management (in hospital and in practice) is understood to be the totality of all measures used to identify and avert or mitigate the dangers of reduced success due to loss of assets, loss of reputation or due to missed opportunities, etc. Risk management is a part of the quality management system ( QMS) and should not be considered separately. Risk management in hospitals is based on the early recognition of risks and errors and is intended to enable risk and error estimation on the one hand and risk and error limitation or elimination on the other. One component of the risk management system is the so-called Critical Incident Reporting System ( CIRS), which allows the early detection of near-misses without damage.