Download or read book Healthcare in Uganda Service Quality and Patient Satisfaction in Hospitals written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Health - Health system, Uganda Christian University, course: BBA, language: English, abstract: This study focuses on the health care service quality and patient satisfaction in Uganda. Chapter One covers the background to the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, scope of the study, significance of the study, justification, the conceptual framework and definition of key terms and concepts. Chapter Two discusses the relevant literature that has been reviewed in the area of healthcare service quality and patient satisfaction. It also highlights various researchers and authors that have emphasized more on the topic in accordance with the research objectives. The chapter covers the theoretical review, literature on the variables under study, existing gaps in literature, amongst others. Chapter Three gives the methodology that will be used to accomplish the research objectives and questions. It gives direction to follow to get answers to the area of concern. This chapter presents the Research Design, Area of Study, Study Population, Sample Size and Sampling Techniques, Data Collection methods and techniques, Quality Control Methods, measurement of variables, Data Analysis Techniques, Ethical Considerations, and Limitations to the study are briefly discussed. We found the hospital has no running water; the theatre is dysfunctional while electricity only visits. A nurse gave me two options: either to pick drugs after two days because the drugs were out of stock or buy them from private clinics. These and many more are some of the challenges faced by patients who access a number of hospitals in Uganda. Who will heal Uganda’s ailing health care system, remains a key question yet to be answered.
Download or read book HEALTHCARE SERVICE QUALITY AND PATIENT SATISFACTION IN OMANI PUBLIC HOSPITALS THROUGHOUT COVID 19 ERA AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION written by Ghaliya Salah Al Atar and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare quality (HQ) became eminent during the COVID-19 crisis. Despite the efforts made by the Ministry of Health in Oman, the country faced several challenges, such as a lack of available funds and patients perceived in a negative manner which hindered their treatment experience. The study examines factors affecting HQ using the SERVQUAL model; patient satisfaction in Omani public hospitals, including healthcare quality, resources availability (RA), and healthcare facility preparedness (HFP); and the moderation effect of the perceived risk of COVID-19 pandemic. This research uses a mixed method with a sample size of 387 patients (quantitatively) selected using probability random sampling of 8 patients (qualitatively) who visited public hospitals The findings from the quantitative analysis reveals that the tangibility and RA had insignificant effect on the HQ. The moderation effect of perceived risk of COVID-19 between HQ, RA, HFP and patient satisfaction was insignificant. The results of the qualitative analysis indicated other factors that affected patient satisfaction, including communication, helpfulness, compassion, physician professionalism, patient-doctor contact, waiting time, atmosphere, and cleanliness. The study proposed a strategy for technical categories that include professional skills, service outcomes and concrete quality aspects, and functional categories. The study has also recommended implications for further investigation.
Download or read book The Effects of Perceived Service Quality on Patient Satisfaction and Behavioral Compliance at a Multi Speciality Public Hospital in State of Pahang written by Bahari Mohamed and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of health care service is always at the forefront of professional, political, concern stakeholders, and managerial attention. However, the key dimensions contributing to health care service quality not been fully understood. Many studies have been conducted to measure health care service quality, but most of them in developed countries, especially in Europe and the USA; the results may not be applied to the Malaysian context due to difference in culture, environment, and facilities accessibility. Although, the health care service quality research in developing countries is growing nonetheless, the study is not widespread in Malaysia. Only few empirical studies on healthcare service quality from Malaysia can be identified published in journals and the findings are inconsistent. Thus, to fill this knowledge gap, this study developed a service quality model for health care service by framing the association of service quality antecedents, perceived service quality, patient satisfaction, and behavioral compliance. To validate the research model and test the proposed research hypotheses, the study used a quantitative approach as a research paradigm, cross-sectional design as a survey method, combination of cluster and convenience sampling as a sampling technique and partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) as a data analysis technique. The findings of the study show that health care service quality is a context-specific and multi-dimensional constructs. Given the high power achieved from the analysis, this thesis has significant theoretical and practical contributions. Theoretically, the study extends service quality research by reconstructing the model as a reflective, multi-dimensional constructs and evaluating the impacts of antecedent constructs on perceived service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioral compliance in the context of health care service in Malaysia. Methodologically, the study validates that PLS-SEM is suitable to estimate the parameters of a multi-dimensional constructs. Practically, the study provides hospital management with a health care service quality model for conducting integrated analysis and design of service delivery systems. Overall, the study makes a significant contribution to healthcare organizations, better health outcomes for patients and better quality of life for the community.
Download or read book Service Quality in Indian Hospitals written by Sanjay Mohapatra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an elaborate and empirical look at service quality of hospitals in the emerging market of India. The poor quality of service is a major issue in a large number of hospitals (particularly in government hospitals), which forces patients to opt for private hospitals that are generally much more expensive than government hospitals. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of service quality antecedents in Indian hospitals. It focuses on patient satisfaction and includes valuable insights and implications for hospital management and government. The book is theoretically grounded in SERVQUAL literature and uses appropriate and sophisticated techniques and tools to analyse data. It highlights causal model development with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and introduces a classification model, developed using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), in order to benchmark specialty cardiac care. The book also deals with Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and compares the error rates between SVM and ANN to find the best classification technique among the two. Overall, this book is a timely and relevant work that contributes to the theory, practice and policy of service quality in hospitals.
Download or read book SERVICE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE SECTOR A study based on Government Hospitals written by Dr.A.Antony Selva Priya & Dr.R.Anantha Laxmi and published by Lulu Publication. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care has become one of India’s largest sectors both in terms of revenue and employment. Health care comprises of hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, medical tourism, health, insurance and medical equipment. In 2015, the Indian health care sector became the fifth largest employer, both in terms of direct as well as indirect employment, with total direct employment of 4,713,061 people. India is expected to rank amongst the top three healthcare markets in terms of incremental growth by 2020. The Indian health care sector is growing at a brisk pace due to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well asprivate players.
Download or read book Hospital Service Quality written by Paul Peng Sun Chui and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossing the Global Quality Chasm written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries written by Dean T. Jamison and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-04-02 with total page 1449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effectiveinterventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated effortsto optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists,academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the worldcontributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identifiedchallenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensivereference volume on the state of health in developing countries.
Download or read book The Perceived Quality of Healthcare Services and Patient Satisfaction in South African Public Hospitals written by Aimée Dorothy Wesso and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voicing Client Concerns to Improve Quality of Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healthcare Delivery in Sub Saharan Africa written by Augustine Awuah Peprah and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of increased competition and high cost in healthcare delivery, the healthcare industry has reorganized its service delivery systems to include the adoption of patient centred approach which shifts the culture of the healthcare system from one formed by the preferences and decisions of medical professionals to one shaped by the views and needs of its users. As a result, patients demand the quality of service that meets their expectation and needs. This book emanates from a research conducted to assess patients' satisfaction and perceived service quality at Sunyani Regional Hospital in Ghana. It brings to bear some of the factors influencing patients' satisfaction such as attitudes of nurses toward patients, the capacity to deliver prompt service without wasting time, ability to disseminate information to patients, the availability of up-to-date equipment, the hospitals' ability to render 24 hour service, among others. This book is considered as a useful resource to researchers, hospital administrators and students.
Download or read book Trends and Research in the Decision Sciences written by Decision Sciences Institute. Annual Meeting and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision science offers powerful insights and techniques that help people make better decisions to improve business and society. This new volume brings together the peer-reviewed papers that have been chosen as the "best of the best" by the field's leading organization, the Decision Sciences Institute. These papers, authored by respected decision science researchers and academics from around the world, will be presented at DSI's 45th Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida in November 2014. The first book of papers ever assembled by DSI, this volume describes recent methods and approaches in the decision sciences, with a special focus on how accelerating technological innovation is driving change in the ways organizations and individuals make decisions. These papers offer actionable insights for decision-makers of all kinds, in business, public policy, non-profit organizations, and beyond. They also point to new research directions for academic researchers in decision science worldwide.
Download or read book The Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire Short form PSQ 18 written by Grant N. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article reports on the development and psychometric properties of a short-form version of the 50-item Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire III (PSQ-III). The short-form instrument, the PSQ-18, contains 18 items tapping each of the seven dimensions of satisfaction with medical care measured by the PSQ-III: general satisfaction, technical quality, interpersonal manner, communication, financial aspects, time spent with doctor, and accessibility and convenience. PSQ-18 subscale scores are substantially correlated with their full-scale counterparts and possess generally adequate internal consistency reliability. Moreover, both the magnitude of the correlation coefficients and the overall pattern of correlations among PSQ-18 subscales are highly similar to those observed for the PSQ-III. These preliminary analyses support the use of the PSQ-18 in situations where the need for brevity precludes administration of the full-length PSQ-III.
Download or read book An Assessment of Service Quality in Private Health Care Sector in Sri Lanka written by Omar Al Serhan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study identifies the quality determinants of the private healthcare delivery and the gap between expected and perceived service quality. It will also investigate the relationship between satisfaction and loyalty with customers' perception. Data gathered from 154 patients, 41 management representatives and 46 internal customers including 38 doctors and 08 nurses from 15 private hospitals located in Western Province using a questionnaire survey developed based on SERVQUAL model. Findings suggest that reliability dimensions were the most expected by patients though, assurance dimensions were the most perceived quality dimensions. There were significance gap between expectation and perception while responsive dimensions shown the highest representing lower quality of service while assurance and empathy dimensions have significant relationship with overall customer satisfaction. From the internal customers' point of view, assurance dimensions were the highest service quality gap. Moreover, management values responsiveness as the most expected dimension by indicating differences between patient, management and internal customers expected and perceived service quality. Therefore, hospital administration can use the current findings to develop health care service delivery strategies to enhance patient satisfaction and patient trust.
Download or read book Service Quality Assessment in Hospital written by Bishnu Prasad Neupane and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted with the emergence of the healthcare industry and the increasing demand for excellent service providers, it is necessary to understand how patients perceive healthcare service providers and what influences patient satisfaction and retention. So, this research focuses on service takers expectations from a good hospital and perception after receiving the service from Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara.
Download or read book Health Professions Education written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.
Download or read book The Relationship of Business Process Capabilities and Internal Service Quality to Health Care Sevice Quality Patient Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions and Its Relationship to Business Performance written by Yvonne Augustine Sudibyo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
