The phrase "a potential harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing risks or dangers that may occur in a certain situation or context.
Example: "The study highlighted a potential harm associated with the new medication that needs further investigation."
Alternatives: "a possible danger" or "a likely risk".
"We can't show that there's actually human harm but we should look at it as a potential harm and prevent it from contaminating the environment," said Professor Novotny.
If proponents did go to the Supreme Court, Mr. Hasen said, the justices would not be ruling on the facts or findings in the case, but on whether there was a potential harm being caused by Judge Walker's lifting of the stay.
With the knowledge granted by the mother's genetic test, the physician can prevent a potential harm.
It is crucial to recognize that patients, while able to rationally "understand" memory loss is a potential harm, might fail to appreciate memory loss might interfere with everyday life.
First we as a society learn of a potential harm caused by common practice; take smoking as an example, or the use of leaded gasoline.
A potential harm from local anticoagulant therapies lies in the fact that part of the procoagulant response may be needed for healing.
Re-infibulation within medical settings has been a common occurrence across the western world, often brought forward as a potential harm-reduction strategy in order to minimise health hazards associated with potentially risky behaviours.
In announcing the decision, nine months after its initial ruling, David Cooke, head of the British Board of Film Classification, reiterated his group's opinion that the game "posed a real potential harm risk," GameIndustry.biz said.
Overdiagnosis represents an important potential harm of screening, since it incurs additional cost, anxiety and morbidity associated with the cancer treatment.
Taken together, these self-report, heart-rate, and behavioral data indicate that both high and low hypnotizable participants succeeded in imagining a situation of potential harm in a vivid and involving way.
Since we never had clear evidence of a benefit, even a hint of potential harm from multis was enough to argue pretty powerfully against their routine use.
