Title :
The evaluation and analysis on medical service quality of inpatient department of public & nonprofit hospital
Author :
Cheng, Longsheng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., China
Abstract :
The supply process and quality of medical service is related with the benefit of the general public, the evaluation and improvement of the medical service quality should be laid store by the charge department of hospital and hospitals themselves. The service quality of inpatient department is an important aspect of the hospital quality management. This paper constructs the evaluation index system of medical service quality for inpatient department, and employs the analytic hierarchy process to determine weights of forces based on the judgment of the specialists. Ten public & nonprofit hospitals in Nanjing have been studied; the result of evaluation of their medical service quality for inpatient department is gained, by using TOPSIS method and cluster analysis method. This research has been affirmed by the Health Bureau of Nanjing and the research also offers some decision reference for them.
Keywords :
medical administrative data processing; patient monitoring; statistical analysis; TOPSIS method; analytic hierarchy process; cluster analysis; evaluation index system; hospital quality management; inpatient department; medical service quality; nonprofit hospital; public hospital; specialists judgment; Environmental economics; Government; Hospitals; Medical services; Medical treatment; Quality management; Resource management; Statistical analysis; Surgery; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Services Systems and Services Management, 2005. Proceedings of ICSSSM '05. 2005 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8971-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2005.1500251