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Assessment of the Quality of Public Hospital Healthcare Services by using SERVQUAL

Hospital healthcare service quality measurement represents an important approach for advancing healthcare systems. This paper presents preliminary results of a research on the quality of healthcare services provided by a large, public, university hospital centre in Croatia, based on the Gaps Model o...

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Autores principales: Ozretić Došen, Đurđana, Škare, Vatroslav, Čerfalvi, Vesna, Benceković, Željka, Komarac, Tanja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medical Research, Vinogradska cesta c. 29 Zagreb 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7808225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33456116
http://dx.doi.org/10.20471/acc.2020.59.02.12
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Sumario:Hospital healthcare service quality measurement represents an important approach for advancing healthcare systems. This paper presents preliminary results of a research on the quality of healthcare services provided by a large, public, university hospital centre in Croatia, based on the Gaps Model of Service Quality and the SERVQUAL instrument. The importance of particular service quality dimensions was analyzed, as well as the gaps between patient perceptions and expectations of healthcare services provided by 18 departments of the university hospital centre. Results revealed the gaps that exist at the level of the university hospital centre as a whole, showing the size variations in different service quality dimensions. The management of the university hospital centre should improve healthcare service quality in all dimensions by paying particular attention to the ‘responsiveness’ and ‘tangibility’, where the largest gap was identified.