background: standard cares in substance abuse treatment centers (satc) have an important role in treatment success achievement. patients’ views will provide valuable information to improve the performance of these centers. the purpose of current study was to determine patients’ comments on quality of addiction treatment at satcs. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013. the st...

PURPOSE This paper seeks to develop and test the SERVQUAL model scale for measuring Malaysian private health service quality. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The study consists of 340 randomly selected participants visiting a private healthcare facility during a three-month data collection period. Data were analyzed using means, correlations, principal component and confirmatory factor analysis t...

Service quality in the tourism industry receives increasing attention in the literature and yet confusion still exists as to which measure offers the greatest validity. The two main research instruments are Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) and SERVQUAL. However, both measures have been questioned and research has introduced measures that multiply SERVQUAL by Importance, as well a measure o...

Liberalisation process has just started in the Turkish rail market with the new law recently entered into force in order to comply with EU Directives. In the liberalised markets, service quality is the decisive factor that rail undertakings can use to create difference and achieve competitive advantages. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the customer perceived service quality for rail fre...

The main objective of this study is to present a framework developed for assisting Railways to monitor and control the quality of services provided to passengers. The study evaluated the passenger Rail Service quality of Indian Railways by developing SQM (Service Quality Management) model on the basis of SERVQUAL and Rail Transport quality. Three new dimensions (Service Product, Social Responsi...

Extranets for business-to-business information sharing and transaction handling are becoming increasingly common. Yet there is limited research into perceptions of service quality when using Extranets. This paper relates the literature on service quality to the developing literature on Extranets and describes the development and piloting of instruments to measure Extranet service quality from a...

PURPOSE To identify the perception of the ophthalmic service quality provided for outpatients of the public healthcare system as well as to detect which actions should be considered necessary and priority in order to improve its quality. METHODS A quantitative descriptive study was carried out on 100 outpatients of the public healthcare system which were submitted to ophthalmic tests at Funda...