A Surveying Study on Social Satisfaction to Current Doctor-Patient Relationship in China

Abstract

Objective: To survey social satisfaction to current doctor-patient relationship and to explore the influencing factors and improvement strategy. Methods: Survey 1167 people on internet by self-regulating questionnaire within the specified time and then make a statistical analysis. Results: The public's satisfaction to doctor-patient relationship is just at the level of 51.11%. And the sa-tisfaction to Pharmaceutical systems is 56.23%, to related governmental duties is 51.92%, to me-dia coverage is 59.72%, to medical personnel is 65.68%, to patient is 65.74%. There are statistical differences between different ages, residences, educational backgrounds, occupation and medical payments (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The public's satisfaction to current doctor-patient relationship is lower. It's a system engineering to improve the doctor-patient relationship. It needs the medical personnel, patient, government and medium to participate in together and pay more effort to im-prove doctor-patient relationship.