Health Technology Assessment: An Essential Approach to Guide Clinical Governance Choices on Risk Management

Abstract

Risk management in this chapter is defined as the process of identifying, through the study of all possible sources of errors and problems, the required preventive and corrective actions to reduce risk and whose consequences that compromises the capacity of an organization to reach its own objectives (Del Vecchio and Cosmi, 2003). It has been extensively used in economics, engineering and recently has also been adopted in the fields of public and private health (Gorrod, 2004; Alexander and Sheedy, 2005).