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Malawi Medical Journal
College of Medicine, University of Malawi and Medical Association of Malawi
ISSN: 1995-7262
Vol. 30, No. 4, 2018, pp. 270-275
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Bioline Code: mm18053
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Malawi Medical Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2018, pp. 270-275
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Patient satisfaction with services at a tertiary hospital in south-east Nigeria
Obi, Ikechukwu E; Ndu, Anne C; Agu, Kenneth A; Omotowo, Babatunde I; Agunwa, Chuka C & Idoko, Arthur C
Abstract
Background Patients’ views of the services they receive in a healthcare service help identify critical areas that may need improvement. This survey set
out to determine patients’ satisfaction with quality of general services and specifically with staff attitude and the hospital environment,
while on admission at a teaching hospital in Enugu, south-east Nigeria.
Methods This was a descriptive cross-sectional study using a structured self-administered questionnaire on 170 patients (54% females and 46%
males, aged between 20 and 65 years), post admission, selected by multistage sampling.
Results Less than half (47.3%) of the patients were satisfied with care received on admission. More than half of them (51.8%) were satisfied
with the cleanliness of the hospital environment and how power supply was maintained in the hospital (62.4%). Doctors (90%), nurses
(64.1%) and records staff (60.6%) were considered courteous and professional. Most patients were satisfied with the level of privacy
given to them in their course of hospital stay (67.6%) and with the cost of laboratory investigations (51.8%).
Conclusion
Despite more than half of the surveyed patients being satisfied with some specific aspects of services given while on admission, those
satisfied with the overall experience were less than half. Therefore, periodic patient satisfaction surveys should be institutionalized in
this facility to provide feedback for continuous quality improvement.
Keywords
patient satisfaction; tertiary facility; healthcare; Nigeria
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