Associations Between Waiting Times, Service Times, and Patient Satisfaction in an Endocrinology Outpatient Department: A Time Study and Questionnaire Survey

The issue of long patient waits has attracted increasing public attention due to the negative effects of waiting on patients’ satisfaction with health care. The present study examined the associations between actual waiting time, perceived acceptability of waiting time, actual service time, perceive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhenzhen Xie MS, Calvin Or PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-11-01
Series:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/0046958017739527