Risk Assessment

"Risk Assessment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)

Descriptor ID	D018570
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.740.600.800.715 N04.452.871.715 N05.715.360.750.625.700.690 N06.850.505.715 N06.850.520.830.600.800.715
Concept/Terms	Risk Assessment Risk Assessment Assessments, Risk Risk Assessments Health Risk Assessment Assessment, Health Risk Assessments, Health Risk Health Risk Assessments Risk Assessment, Health Risk Assessments, Health Assessment, Risk Risks and Benefits Risks and Benefits Benefits and Risks Benefit-Risk Assessment Benefit-Risk Assessment Assessment, Benefit-Risk Assessments, Benefit-Risk Benefit Risk Assessment Benefit-Risk Assessments Risk-Benefit Assessment Assessment, Risk-Benefit Assessments, Risk-Benefit Risk Benefit Assessment Risk-Benefit Assessments

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Epidemiologic Methods [E05.318]
Statistics as Topic [E05.318.740]
Probability [E05.318.740.600]
Risk [E05.318.740.600.800]
Risk Assessment [E05.318.740.600.800.715]
Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Organization and Administration [N04.452]
Risk Management [N04.452.871]
Risk Assessment [N04.452.871.715]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Statistics as Topic [N05.715.360.750]
Probability [N05.715.360.750.625]
Risk [N05.715.360.750.625.700]
Risk Assessment [N05.715.360.750.625.700.690]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Measurements [N06.850.505]
Risk Assessment [N06.850.505.715]
Epidemiologic Methods [N06.850.520]
Statistics as Topic [N06.850.520.830]
Probability [N06.850.520.830.600]
Risk [N06.850.520.830.600.800]
Risk Assessment [N06.850.520.830.600.800.715]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Risk Assessment".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Risk Assessment".

Risk Assessment
Adverse Outcome Pathways
Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Risk Assessment" by people in this website by year, and whether "Risk Assessment" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 1457 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 105 publications in 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1997	0	3	3
1998	0	3	3
1999	1	6	7
2000	3	8	11
2001	2	6	8
2002	4	15	19
2003	1	22	23
2004	4	26	30
2005	4	41	45
2006	2	34	36
2007	6	51	57
2008	4	66	70
2009	2	67	69
2010	6	73	79
2011	3	57	60
2012	13	66	79
2013	16	71	87
2014	10	68	78
2015	12	71	83
2016	12	63	75
2017	16	57	73
2018	13	72	85
2019	15	81	96
2020	12	93	105
2021	5	62	67
2022	1	24	25
2023	0	17	17
2024	0	48	48
2025	0	18	18

Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk Assessment" by people in Profiles.

Vieira de Oliveira Salerno PR, Lewis PGT, Chen Z, Dazard JE, Ganatra S, Ahmed EN, Nasir K, Deo SV, Rajagopalan S, Al-Kindi S. Climate Vulnerability and Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Disease in the United?States. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Jun 03; 14(11):e038251.

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Sibley S, Bedford J, Wetterslev M, Johnston B, Garside T, Kanji S, Whitehouse T, Welters I, Ostermann M, Balik M, Lancini D, Dharmaraj B, Benjamin EJ, Walkey AJ, Cuthbertson BH. Atrial fibrillation in critical illness: state of the art. Intensive Care Med. 2025 May; 51(5):904-916.

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Zorrilla-Vaca A, Grant MC, Mendez-Pino L, Rehman MJ, Sarin P, Nasra S, Varelmann D. Preoperative Multivariable Model for Risk Stratification of Hypoxemia During One-Lung Ventilation. Anesth Analg. 2025 May 01; 140(5):1029-1036.

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Wong AH, Sapre AV, Wang K, Nath B, Shah D, Kumar A, Faustino IV, Desai R, Hu Y, Robinson L, Meng C, Tong G, Bernstein SL, Yonkers KA, Melnick ER, Dziura JD, Taylor RA. Predicting Agitation Events in the Emergency Department Through Artificial Intelligence. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 May 01; 8(5):e258927.

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Biran N, Dhakal B, Niesvizky R, Lentzsch S, Bhutani D, McKay JT, Vesole DH, Nooka A, Paul B, Hari PN, D'Ambrosi S, Kuiper R, van Vliet M, Siegel D, Usmani SZ, van Rhee F. Enhancing risk stratification and treatment decision in multiple myeloma with SKY92 gene expression profiling in real-world data. Br J Haematol. 2025 Jun; 206(6):1642-1653.

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Ezenna C, Krishna MM, Joseph M, Ibrahim S, Pereira V, Jenil-Franco A, Nanna MG, Bangalore S, Goldsweig AM. Optical Coherence Tomography Versus Angiography Alone to Guide PCI for Complex Lesions: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 May; 18(5):e015141.

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Rao SV, Brooks MM, D'Agostino HEA, Steg PG, Simon T, Aronow HD, Goldsweig AM, Malik S, Alsweiler C, Ho KKL, Dehghani P, Caixeta A, Quraishi AR, Robinson S, Traverse JH, Siddiqi O, Fergusson DA, Potter BJ, Schulman-Marcus J, Keating FK, Carson JL. Effect of Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategy on Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Revascularization: A Prespecified Analysis of the MINT Trial. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 May; 18(5):e015249.

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Conte MS, Farber A, Barleben A, Chisci E, Doros G, Kashyap VS, Kayssi A, Kolh P, Moreira CC, Nypaver T, Rosenfield K, Rowe VL, Schanzer A, Singh N, Siracuse JJ, Strong MB, Menard MT. Impact of Bypass Conduit and Early Technical Failure on Revascularization for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 Mar; 18(3):e014716.

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Zhang J, Hobbs BD, Silverman EK, Sparrow D, Ortega VE, Xu H, Zhang C, Dupuis J, Walkey AJ, O'Connor GT, Cho MH, Moll M. Polygenic Risk Score Added to Conventional Case Finding to Identify Undiagnosed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. JAMA. 2025 Mar 04; 333(9):784-792.

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Barn?s-Valldejuly O, Wurzl A, Church B. Clinical Risk Assessment and Treatment of a Man Attacked by a Rabid North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) in the Connecticut River: Case Report. Wilderness Environ Med. 2025 06; 36(2):263-266.

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