Background: The main mission of hospital is to promote care quality for patients and to meet their needs and expectations. The present study aims at identifying and prioritizing the patients’ expectations of the hospital services quality, which is considered to be the first step toward accomplishing such an important mission. Material & Methods: The present study is descriptive and applied. T...

Abstract Introduction: One of the first and most important factor in improving the care and treatment processes in measuring the quality of services and accountability of service providers see clients. This paper aims to examine the relationship between service quality and responsiveness of the hospital and its relationship with loyal patients in governmental hospitals of Yazd took place in 20...

Background: Enhancing patients’ satisfaction through providing high quality services is an important goal of a hospital. This study aimed to measure services quality of Tehran teaching hospitals in 2015. Methods: This descriptive and cross sectional study was carried out in seven teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. Hospital services quality was measured using HEALTHQUAL questionnaire by ...

Background: understanding the patient expectations and perceptions of service quality is one of the requirements for improving quality of health services. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the gap between patient’s expectations and perceptions in five dimensions of service quality in hospitals affiliated with Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. Materials & Methods: This cross-s...

Background and Aim: Assessing service quality is one of the basic requirements to develop outpatient service. There is no valid and reliable tool to measure quality of outpatient service, therefore this study was performed to determine dimensions and items for assessing service quality of outpatient in Iran. Materials and Methods: To determine dimensions and items of the outpatient service qua...

Introduction: Knowledge, as the most important asset of an organization, is regarded as an economic resource. The need for and attainment of the benefits of knowledge management in health centers is highly important and sensitive because we are always faced with a flood of information about patients in health centers. Therefore, the present study was conducted in collaboration with Shahid Rahne...