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[Music] [Laughter] patient satisfaction is a measure of the extent to which a patient is content with the healthcare which they received from their healthcare provider in evaluations of healthcare quality patient satisfaction is a performance indicator measured in a self-report study and a specific type of customer satisfaction metric because patients may be dissatisfied with health care which improves their health or satisfied with health care which does not there are circumstances in which patient satisfaction is not a valid indicator of healthcare quality even though it is often used as such many studies have failed to identify a relationship between patient satisfaction and healthcare quality patients satisfaction with an encounter with healthcare service is mainly dependent on the duration and efficiency of care and how in pathetic and communicative the healthcare providers are it is favored by a good doctor patient relationship also patients who are well informed of the necessary procedures in a clinical encounter and the time it is expected to take are generally more satisfied even if there is a longer waiting time another critical factor influencing patient satisfaction is the job satisfaction experienced by the care provider in the United States hospitals whose surgery patients reported being highly satisfied also performed higher quality surgical procedures the implication of this is that there does not need to be trade-off between high patient satisfaction and quality patient care the consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems or see AHPs survey is an ongoing research project to guide the development of consumer surveys being used assess the quality of care provided by health plans physician groups and clinicians it is an example of a major research effort which studies the significance of consumer responses to surveys by 1998 the process of measuring and reporting of patient satisfaction a' had become an established industry a concern about asking patients about the quality of their care is that patients tend to be more satisfied by attractive health care than by effective health care and satisfaction reports may not give good information about the ability of a hospital doctor or treatment to improve their health higher patient satisfaction have been associated with less emergency department use but with greater inpatient use higher overall health care and prescription drug expenditures and increased mortality despite these concerns more and more research has established customer satisfaction as a valid and reliable measure of customer behaviors and organizational performance reduced complaint behavior about their primary care physician and lower likelihood of terminating a relationship among health care consumers that is patients satisfaction is best understood as a multi attribute model with different aspects of care determining overall satisfaction importantly lower performance on an attribute creates much more dissatisfaction than the satisfaction generated by higher performance on an attribute in other words negative performance is more consequential than positive performance thus ensuring overall patient satisfaction it is more important to reduce negative performance on the patient care dimension with the worst perceived performance them to maximize positive performance on another dimension a fruitful solution can be measuring patient dissatisfaction instead of satisfaction [Music] you [Music]