in today’s competitive world, customers are at the main focus of organizations and the customer loyalty is the main reason of acquiring competitive advantage of organizations. the aim of present research is to investigate the relationship between customer loyalty and one of its key variables, service quality. trust and satisfaction have been investigated here as intermediate variables. this res...

Service quality is measured by customers’ satisfaction. Traditionally, the degree of satisfaction is calculated from the data obtained from questionnaires that have been filled by customers directly. The percentile of each different level of a customer’s satisfaction is employed to summarize and compare the quality of service provided by different enterprises. This approach does not consider th...

OBJECTIVES To investigate patients' satisfaction with nursing care by measuring the gap between patients' expectations of care and perceptions of the actual care provided and to identify the areas of nursing care that need improvement. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted among patients who were admitted to the Departments of Medicine and Surgery at King Saud Medical Ci...

The main objective of this study was to investigate the impact of service quality on customer satisfaction rate private banks Fars Province. Private Banking in the Fars Province, including banks, Pasargad, Parsian, Sinai, Ansar, Ghavamin, Iran zamin, Eghtesad novin, Shahr , Sarmayeh. The study period is the first half of 1396. For ranking of SERVQUAL dimensions including quality of service base...

This study examined the relationship between the attractiveness of the physical environment of healthcare facilities and patient perceptions of quality, service, and waiting time through systematic observations and patient satisfaction surveys at 7 outpatient practices at Weill Cornell Medical Center. Findings indicate positive correlations between more attractive environments and higher levels...

nowadays, with increasing service industries, service marketing and service quality have become an important challenge to organizations. the attempts of organizations in this situation are witnesses to this matter. in the past years, the organizations tried to reach service quality appropriation and satisfaction of self-external customers by concepts and approaches of external marketing. one of...

OBJECTIVE To compare patient perceptions of service quality at solo and group practices, and to examine the association of perceptions with 'potential patient loyalty' (PPL), the potential for seeking future service from the same clinic. DESIGN A self-administered, cross-sectional survey of clinic outpatients, using an adapted SERVQUAL questionnaire translated into Chinese, with additional it...