title: Closing the audit loop: a patient satisfaction survey.
abstract: A patient satisfaction survey was carried out in a nuclear medicine department of a large acute hospital. Surveys were initially carried out by interview and postal techniques, with approximately 100 responders in each category. The responses to each question were not significantly different for the two types of survey, although overall there was a significantly larger number of dissatisfied responses in the postal survey (22%) compared with the interview study (12%). The postal survey was repeated after 1 year, thus completing the audit loop. A significant reduction in dissatisfied responses has occurred in those areas which had been addressed following the criticisms revealed by the first survey.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Nuclear Medicine, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Harding
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Griffith
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Harding
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Tulley
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Notghi
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Thomson
mesh_terms: D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008123:Location Directories and Signs; D008485:Medical Audit; D009684:Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital; D010299:Parking Facilities; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013971:Thyrotoxicosis / Q000532:radiotherapy
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes