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Exploring the opinion of hemodialysis patients About their dialysis unit
Joint Authors
Dunya, Ahmad Faruq
al-Hadidi, Muhammad Ahmad
al-Maghrabi, Hanzada Muhammad
Abbas, Muhammad Hamid
Fudah, Muhammad Ashraf
Source
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
Issue
Vol. 26, Issue 1 (28 Feb. 2015), pp.73-77, 5 p.
Publisher
Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation
Publication Date
2015-02-28
Country of Publication
Saudi Arabia
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Hemodialysis (HD) patients are subjected to a number of physical and mental stresses.
Physicians might be unaware of some of these problems.
We assessed our patients’ opinion about the service provided at the dialysis unit.
Our unit has 89 patients on HD.
A questionnaire exploring our patients’ opinion relative to the service provided was prepared.
The patients were asked to fill-in the questionnaire in a confidential manner.
Questionnaires were then collected and examined while unaware of patient identities.
Sixty-nine patients (77.5 %) responded to the questionnaire.
Eight patients (11.6 %) revealed their names on the questionnaire.
According to the questionnaire, the patients were asked to assess the service of each service by choosing one of the following grades: “excellent,” “mediocre” or “bad.” For the whole group of contributing patients, there were 563 “excellent,” 85 “mediocre” and five “bad” choices in addition to 37 blank “no comment” choices.
Food service had the least percentage (68 %) of evaluation as “excellent,” while doctor’ performance got the highest excellent evaluation (85.5 %).
Thirty-five patients (50.7 %) added further comment(s).
An audit meeting was conducted to discuss these results.
Exploring the opinion of patients on HD might uncover some areas of dissatisfaction and help in improving the provided service.
We recommend widespread usage of questionnaires to assess patient satisfaction as well as to assess other health-care aspects.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Dunya, Ahmad Faruq& al-Hadidi, Muhammad Ahmad& al-Maghrabi, Hanzada Muhammad& Abbas, Muhammad Hamid& Fudah, Muhammad Ashraf. 2015. Exploring the opinion of hemodialysis patients About their dialysis unit. Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation،Vol. 26, no. 1, pp.73-77.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Dunya, Ahmad Faruq…[et al.]. Exploring the opinion of hemodialysis patients About their dialysis unit. Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation Vol. 26, no. 1 (Jan. / Feb. 2015), pp.73-77.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Dunya, Ahmad Faruq& al-Hadidi, Muhammad Ahmad& al-Maghrabi, Hanzada Muhammad& Abbas, Muhammad Hamid& Fudah, Muhammad Ashraf. Exploring the opinion of hemodialysis patients About their dialysis unit. Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation. 2015. Vol. 26, no. 1, pp.73-77.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-442433
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 76-77
Record ID
BIM-442433