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MERS-TM provides a guide for establishing the level of patient risk for each event. That guide is the Risk Assessment Index or RAI.

RISK = SEVERITY X PROBABLILITY OF RECURRENCE

Therefore, values for both severity and probability of recurrence must be estimated.

On the Risk Assessment Index:

  • Severity is the Quantified Estimate of Severity of patient harm or QES.

  • Probability is the Quantified Estimate of Probability of recurrence or QEP


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