IJCRRI Journ Cur Res ReInternational Journal of Current Research and ReviewI Journ Cur Res Re2231-21960975-5241Radiance Research Academy1841HealthcarePATIENTS__ampersandsign#39; PERCEPTION ON HOSPITAL SERVICES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BEHAVIOR OF DOCTORS IN VILLUPURAM DISTRICT KarthikeyanD.ThurunarayanasamyM.250420122332This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 20092009This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.

This study aims to examine the patient perception of hospital services in villupuram district. A total of 600 respondents were selected in the study area in and out patients were included in the study to know their perceptions towards the public and private health facilities. The major reason of choosing the public health facility was inexpensiveness, infrastructure, and proximity of health facility. From the analysis of the respondents regardless of their social status have expressed the same ?poor__ampersandsignlsquo; views, but there is a significant difference in the degree of poor opinion across respondents categories by age, sex, education__ampersandsignnbsp;and occupation. It is finally concluded that behavior of doctors is significantly better in private hospitals compared to Government hospitals in villupuram district.