Perceptual Gaps in Understanding Patient Expectations for Health Care Service Quality
Health Care Management ReviewPublished 1 January 2000
Stephen O’Connor, Hanh Q. Trinh, Richard M. Shewchuk
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Using a cross-sectional research design and discriminant analysis, it was found that health administrators were most likely to accurately estimate the service expectations of patients, while medical and nursing students were mostlikely to underestimate them.
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This article assesses how well physicians, health administrators, patient-contact employees, and especially medical and nursing students understand patient expectations for service quality as measured by the SERVQUAL scale. Using a cross-sectional research design and discriminant analysis, it was found that health administrators were most likely to accurately estimate the service expectations of patients, while medical and nursing students were most likely to underestimate them.
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