Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2019): Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat (JIKM)

The Relationship of Hospital Cost, Service Quality and Patient Satisfaction

Riska Arista (Faculty of Public Health, Sriwijaya University)
Haerawati Idris (Faculty of Public Health, Sriwijaya University)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Sep 2019

Abstract

Customer satisfaction becomes very important to determine the success of service companies. One way to survive in the healthcare industry today is to create customer satisfaction through improved service quality. Hospital cost is an indicator for patients to utilize health services. This study aims to analyze the relationship of hospital cost and service quality with patient satisfaction. This study used analytic survey with a cross-sectional study design. The sample of this study is the general patient who used inpatient and outpatient installation of Bhayangkara Hospital in Palembang as many as 117 patients. The sampling technique used systematic random sampling. Analysis of statistical data used the t-test. The results showed that the quality of service has a significant relationship with patient satisfaction (p-value 0,001). While the hospital cost does not have a significant relationship with satisfaction patients (p-value 0,368). Service quality has relationship with patient satisfaction. The hospital should improve dimension of service quality in order to improve patient satisfaction.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jikm

Publisher

Subject

Public Health

Description

Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat (JIKM) is a scientific peer-reviewed journal. Its aims are to share out, to develop, to facilitate research findings in Public Health that it will give benefit to managers, decision makers, public health officer, health problem practitioners, lecturers, as well as ...