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Sj Tabibi, Mj Kakhani, Mr Gohari, S Shahri,
Volume 8, Issue 3 (2-2010)
Abstract

Background: the competitive of existing area in servicing organizations which are showing the desired services, the importance and satisfy customers and making content about their needs more than before.

Material & Methods: The present study descriptive survey of practical purpose and its method correlation study has been done. Statistical Society of  this research is all referred patients to outpatient clinics in private and governmental hospitals at Tehran province(N=260). The data collecting tools have included two questionnaires, so for measuring of services quality was used from servqual standard questionnaire and part of parasoraman, zitamel and berry(1996) standard questionnaire about customer's behavioral tendencies for measuring of loyalty.

Results: T-test was used  for comparing the average in private and governmental section at all the five dimentions and  pierson correlation coefficient was used for determining the relation between one by one the five dimentions of services quality with patient 's loyalty and also used regression  test. 36% of variance in patients' loyalty is due to components of service quality. A change of one unit in tangible factors, ensuring, and empathy results in 0.263, 0.285, and 0.116 change in patient 's loyalty, respectively. Regression model cannot make any prediction for other components because the significance levels of components are greater than 0.05.

Conclusion: whereas in this research there is meaningful relation between services quality and patient's loyaltyit seems that in such organizations the strategic application which cause the improving of qualitywill redound the increasing of patient'sloyalty and finally it will cause more profitability for hospitals.


Reza Ahmadi Kahnali,
Volume 13, Issue 4 (3-2015)
Abstract

Background: The main mission of hospital is to promote care quality for patients and to meet their needs and expectations. The present study aims at identifying and prioritizing the patients’ expectations of the hospital services quality, which is considered to be the first step toward accomplishing such an important mission. Material & Methods: The present study is descriptive and applied. The data was collected through pairwise comparisons questionnaire that was distributed among 150 patients in a public hospital in Bandar Abbas, 104 patients filled out the questionnaire. The obtained data were analyzed by the use of AHP. Results: The results show that among the different dimensions of hospital service quality investigated in the present study, the patients listed 5 main dimensions in order of priority: accessibility (0.251), medical services(0.232), environment(0.202), administration(0.160), and relation(0.155). Among different criteria, access to medicine and blood(0.054) was the first priority and attention to the patient(0.010) was the low priority. Conclusion: Due to the key role of the patients in defining and assessment of service quality, the present study presents a framework for evaluation of hospital service quality according which the priorities of patients were determined. The managers are advised to prioritize the quality improvement practices based on the patients’ priorities in order to satisfy the patients and make the processes customer-oriented.

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