Therefore, while no member of the public was harmed, the risk to public safety was indeed present, and affirms the clinical relevance of absconding behaviors and the importance of further research into their characteristics and determinants.
According to this theory responsibility for harmful outcomes is restricted to the type of harm the risk of which was increased by the agency's intervention.
He stressed that there is no evidence indicating such a large number of people have been harmed; the health risk assessment shows only that they could be.
This corresponds to a number needed to harm (the inverse of the attributable risk) of 485.
Second, overdiagnosed persons experience the psychological harm and the risks and morbidities of invasive diagnostic procedures and resectional surgery with no possible offsetting benefit.
"The market in which we participate is highly competitive, and if we do not compete effectively, our operating results could be harmed," reads the "risk factors" section of the filing.
For attempted suicide or self harm the absolute risks ranged from 1.02% for amitriptyline to 2.96% for venlafaxine.
On the alternative view an agency that provides an independently or jointly sufficient condition of harm bears the risk that that harm will eventuate even if it would in the circumstances have come about in any event.
In time, though, we came to accept the view supported by most Asians: that the campaign against sweatshops risks harming the very people it is intended to help.
To do so risks harming the patient in multiple ways – physically, psychologically and financially – without any evidence of likely benefit.
