[Evaluation of staff's attitude toward clinical governance, barriers, facilitating factors and outcomes of implementing and organizing this approach]

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Clinical governance is a framework through which health organizations are accountable to improve the quality of their services continuously and safeguard high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will be flourished. Since clinical governance approach has been introduced to Iranian hospitals for more than half a decade, and clinical staff have a very important role in implementing and organizing clinical governance, this study aimed to evaluate the clinical staff's attitude toward clinical governance, barriers, facilitating factors, and outcomes of implementing and organizing this approach: