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Ayakta ve Yatarak Tedavi Gören Hastaların Hizmet Kalitesi Algılarının Farklı Hastane Türleri İçin İncelenmesi
An Investigaiton of Inpatients’ and Outpatients’ Perceptions of Healthcare Quality for Different Hospital Types

Author(s): Serdar Saltik, Taner Sigindi
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Service Quality; Inpatient; Outpatient;

Summary/Abstract: Purpose – This paper investigates the inpatients’ and outpatients’ perception of healthcare quality and aims to reveal if their perceptions differ in terms of hospital type. Services before the treatment, physician services, personal needs-laboratory services and physical environment were used as subdimensions of healthcare services. Design/methodology/approach – The research was conducted in Mugla-Turkey, and the data were collected via questionnaires from inpatients and outpatients treated in state, private and university hospitals. Analysis of variance test and t-test were used to analyze the data. Findings – For all dimensions, outpatients’ service quality perceptions of private hospitals are higher than public hospitals and university hospitals except physician services for the latter. Inpatients’ service quality perceptions of private hospitals are higher than public and university hospitals for the sub-dimensions of services before the treatment and personal needs-laboratory services. Besides, inpatients’ service quality perceptions of private hospitals are higher than public hospitals for only dimension of physical environment.

  • Issue Year: 12/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 269-280
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish
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