Perceptual Gaps in Understanding Patient Expectations for Health Care Service Quality
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Health Care Management Review
- Vol. 25 (2) , 7-23
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004010-200004000-00002
Abstract
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.Keywords
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