Service quality of private hospitals: The Iranian Patients' perspective

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zarei, Asghar ^a   Arab, Mohammad ^a   Froushani, Abbas Rahimi ^a   Rashidian, Arash ^a   Tabatabaei, S Mahmoud Ghazi ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; EXPECTATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INSURANCE; IRAN; IRANIAN (CITIZEN); LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84856417154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-31     Document Type: Article

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