Designing the evaluation framework for Clinical governance in IR Iran AJA Hospitals

Abstract

Background: Clinical Governance now selected as a model to improve the quality of health care services in hospitals of Iran. in recent years Army hospitals have made good progress in implementing this model, but over several years there is no appropriate tool for assessing clinical governance in the country. Materials and Methods: First, researcher studid books and paper related to the subject and do a search on the Internet and with content analysis provide the necessary framework then provided draft validate by the panel of experts with Lavashh method. After the questionnaire used to assess the four Army’s hospitals. Results: provided questionaire has eight areas; commitment to quality, clinical effectiveness, risk management, patient centerdness, staff management, information management, learning and clinical audit and has three dimention; infrasructure, deploy and results. Evaluation results show that hospitals in most areas are on average or closer to average Conclutions: The results show that a more coherent plan is needed to improve clinical governance conditions in armys hospitals.