Abstract

Risk is defined as a chance or possibility of danger or incurring loss or injury. It is recognized that harm may befall a patient even in the best hospital and departments delivering the highest possible standard of care and the practice of medicine is often a process of balancing a risk against efficacy of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure. Risk management is proactive approach involving the systematic identification, quantification and assessment of risks, the approval of options to eliminate or reduce them and recognition by all concerned of the implications of the risks.

Keywords

radiology, radiologist