Journal of North Khorasan

Abstract Background & Objectives: in the recent decades, clinical governance have been used for reducing a deep division between the qualities and the potential to provide the desired and high quality services en. This study aimed to assess the readiness to deploy clinical governance in hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Material & Methods: This study is a cross-sectional study was conducted in the summer of 2013. The target population for all categories of staff in five hospital affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The sample size was set equal to 150. Standardized questionnaire to collect information on clinical governance climate Freeman (26) was used. Content validity of the questionnaire was approved by the therapists and reliability using Cronbach's alpha, was estimated at 79%. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and ANOVA, t-test and Pearson correlation were used SPSS21 software. Results: The findings of this study indicate that all six components of clinical governance are higher than the baseline average. Between the age and experience of clinical governance there is no statistically significant relationship (P> 0.05). T test results also showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between gender and clinical governance (P = 0.041) so that the mean clinical governance was higher in women than in women. Conclusion: the hospitals in this study have a good readiness for implementation of clinical governance and to develop and enhance this, it suggested that focus on educational staff needs and managers’s perspective.