THE SATISFACTION WITH MEDICAL SERVICES AS AN INDICATOR OF EFFICIENCY OF FUNCTIONING OF MEDICAL INSTITUTION

The need in optimization of strategies of activities of various health care structures focuses scientific practical interest to studying a degree of satisfaction of patients with not only received medical care but psychological interactions with specialists, sanitary hygienic, organizational, sociocultural and other characteristics of curative institution. The purpose of study is targeted to corroborate a hypothesis about expediency of involvement of sociological surveys to medical care quality assessment in conditions of practical health care institutions. The article designates theoretical foundation of the problem and expounds results of applied study (questionnaire survey) targeted to evaluate competence and level of professionalism of specialists, benevolence of employees, diagnostic possibilities, sanitary hygienic conditions and also preventive, informational and organizational functioning of institution. On the basis of gender and age-related criteria differences in indices of requirements of respondents were established and their common needs in sphere of supporting physical and social health as well.

organization of functioning, health care institution, satisfaction, patients, sociological survey