Hospital quality information needed by social security beneficiaries attending outpatient departments at hospital in Bangkok and vicinity for selecting main contractor hospitals
Abstract:
To study hospital quality information needed by social security beneficiaries. The subjects were 1,600 social security beneficiaries who attended outpatient departments at eight main-contractor hospitals in Bangkok and its vicinity. Data were collected by questionnaire during 15 December 2000 to 15 February 2001. This study found that numbers of requested information catagories was 51.16% of all information. The most commonly requested information were scope of medical care (82.38%), results of diagnosis and treatment descriptions (82.00%) and patient advice (76.25%). The most commonly named sources of the information were Hospital's personnels (61.41%), personnel department of establishment (15.76%) and personnels from social security office (11.93%). The common media for the information were television (51.73%), news letter or journal (23.88%) and pamphlets (8.60%). Statistical significant relationships were found between numbers of requested information categories and job type (p<.001) and illness (p = .003)