Evaluación de la calidad y satisfacción de los servicios hospitalarios privados de la ciudad de Quito bajo la teoría del modelo SERVQUAL

Abstract

With the development of humanity, and particularly with advances in the field of medicine, it is necessary to make a call to humanize health care and provide higher quality services. Quality in health care should be based on activities aimed at ensuring accessible and equitable health services with optimal professionals and taking into account available resources, achieving user satisfaction with the care received (Pérez, 2008). The research has the objective of identifying the level of quality based on user satisfaction, through a qualitative-quantitative approach and a type of exploratory and descriptive research, a systematic review of the scientific information was carried out. Subsequently, quality was evaluated through the application of the SERVQUAL questionnaire adapted to a sample of patients of 298, under criteria of inclusion, exclusion and ethics. Data were tabulated and analyzed in addition to graphically plotted to allow easy interpretation. Finally, it was concluded that the Hospital de Clinical Pichincha presents an indifferent level of satisfaction of the users based on their perceptions and expectations of the service, and a quality index of the service of medium high, for which it was proposed the elaboration and implementation of a Technical guide for assessing the quality of health services measured the levels of user satisfaction.