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© 1992 Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom
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The measurement of patient satisfaction
Roy A. Carr-Hill, Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statistics
Centre for Health Economics, University of York York YO1 5DD
Many applied health service researchers launch into patient satisfaction surveys without realizing the complexity of the task. This paper identifies the difficulties involved in executing patient satisfaction surveys. The recent revival of interest in ‘satisfaction’ and disagreements over the meaningfulness of a unitary concept itself are outlined, and the various perspectives and definitions of the components of satisfaction are explored. The difficulties of developing a comprehensive conceptual model are considered, and the issues involved in designing patient satisfaction surveys – and the disasters that occur when these issues are ignored – are then set out. The potential cost–effectiveness of qualitative techniques is discussed, and the paper concludes by discussing how health care management systems could more effectively absorb the findings of patient satisfaction surveys
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