Challenges of Clinical Governance in Risk Management: A Qualitative Study of Teaching Hospitals

Clinical Governance is a Framework in which health care provider will be responsible for continuous quality improvement. This study aimed to identify implementation challenges of Clinical Governance in the area of risk management.
This is a descriptive-qualitative study. We used Content Analysis method for data analysis. Study environment contained 7 teaching hospitals, and the study population included the hospitals staff engaged in Clinical Governance implementation. Using purposive non-randomised sampling, 18 participants were selected. A semi-structured face-to-face interview was used for data collection. Content Analysis method was used to conceptualize, interpret and analyze the texts and maxQDA software for data analysis.
Our research findings presented two main themes as cultural factors and lack of resources.
Promoting management as well as empowering health care providers could act as a key factor in addressing problems related to the implementation of risk management in health care environments.