Factors Associated with Patient Satisfaction to Healthcare at Mpigi Health Centre IV, Mpigi District-Uganda

Abstract

Patient satisfaction is important for measuring health service delivery, utilization and thus improving quality of care provided. Worldwide, patients are increasingly dissatisfied with the commercialization of medical services, bureaucratic healthcare system, poor quality of healthcare and rotting patient- healthcare provider relationships. Satisfaction is an expression of the gap between the expected and perceived characteristics of service.