title: Patient satisfaction measurement: current issues and implications.
abstract: Healthcare consumers are demanding excellence in care and services from care providers, and payors are following in their expectations. Demonstration of quality outcomes and consumer satisfaction with services are now a priority and the primary competitive edge in healthcare. Hospitals and healthcare systems that invest in programs to determine how patients evaluate their experiences will have valuable information to make transformational changes in care delivery and services. The purpose of this article is to present an overview of consumer/patient satisfaction instruments, satisfaction measurement issues, research instruments, and commonly used vendor patient satisfaction survey programs.
authors.affiliation: North University Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. lurden@clarian.com
authors.forename: Linda D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Urden
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D036301:Qualitative Research; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design