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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4366</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2022.14401</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Patients__ampersandsignrsquo; Gratification Towards Service Delivery Among Government Hospitals with Particular Orientation Towards Primary Health Centres&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Gopalakrishnan</surname><given-names>Ajai Krishnan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Nair</surname><given-names>Athira K</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>15</day><month>02</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>6</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This 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.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: The quality-of-service delivery in health care system is a foremost apprehension in most of hospitals especially primary health centres. The study discusses about the patient__ampersandsignrsquo;s satisfaction towards service delivery in government hospitals, especially with the primary health centres. Materials and Methods: This study employed a descriptive research design. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire and was conducted among the patients of a primary health centre. Patients__ampersandsignrsquo; responses were collected and are grouped under various factors and listed out and analysed. Results: The results of the study demonstrated that participants had diverse levels of expectation about the service delivery factors of primary health centre based on their age, income and educational qualification level. There is a significant influence of patient__ampersandsignrsquo;s hospital visit and availability of medicines in the pharmacy on reason for the service delivery satisfaction(p=0.000). The study further revealed that primary health centres need to take care of their service delivery factors like waiting area, parking facilities, patient care, space in OPD, toilet facilities, feeding rooms, and cafeteria, for improving the patient__ampersandsignrsquo;s service delivery satisfaction. Conclusion: The study showed that the majority of the patients are not satisfied with service delivery factors of the primary health centre. So, the government need to take immediate initiatives for improving the facilities in the primary health centres and upgrade it to the next level.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Hospital Care</kwd><kwd> Patients Satisfaction</kwd><kwd> Primary Health Centres</kwd><kwd> Service Delivery</kwd><kwd> Primary Care</kwd><kwd> Service Quality</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
