title: Major determinants of consumer satisfaction with primary care in different health systems.
abstract: It is becoming increasingly recognized that patient or 'consumer' views should be taken into account as part of a comprehensive assessment of quality of care. This paper reports a study carried out in four European countries about consumer satisfaction with primary care. The results showed that higher levels of general satisfaction with general practitioner services were found in Canterbury (95%) and Ioannina (87%) than Belgrade (85%) and Moscow (62%). Further analysis of the data showed that in all four cities the key dimensions of satisfaction with general practitioner care are both the nature in quality of the doctor-patient relationship and the GP's professional skills. The implications of these findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Services Studies, The University, Canterbury, Kent, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Calnan
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Katsouyiannopoulos
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Ovcharov
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Prokhorskas
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ramic
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004739:England; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006293:Health Promotion; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009031:Moscow; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D015022:Yugoslavia