“The clinical risk management system is defined as all instruments, structures, processes, and activities that focus on identifying, analyzing, preventing, monitoring, and managing clinical risk” (Farokhzadian, Nayeri, & Borhani, 2015, pg. 295). Studies have shown that patients suffer harm from clinical risks. Harm that includes disabilities, longer hospital stays, and even death. “Clinical risks have caused serious problems in health care and annually kill more people than AIDS or breast cancer” (Farokhzadian, Nayeri, & Borhani, 2015, pg. 295). Hospitals in Iran rate poor to moderate for clinical risk management; indicating that patient safety is new. Health care providers had little knowledge about criteria for incident reporting. Hospital
