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Enhancing the Role of Healthcare Providers to Manage the Outpatient Department of Public Private Hospitals


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Objective: Main objective is to perceive the idea that healthcare providers’ involvement in management improves the performance of outpatient department.

Methodology: The study was conducted in public private hospitals of Jaipur. Sample size of 150 was taken to carry out the research. Sampling method is convenient sampling, the result was analysed on SPSS and Microsoft excel bar charts were prepared for better understanding.

Results: The study was designed to see the health care providers’ participation with reference to tertiary care public & private hospitals of Jaipur. Measurement of patients’ perception is significant in order to drive health care providers to provide better services. The study was conducted in public and private hospitals to check the deficiency which can be overcome with the participation of health care providers.

Conclusion: This research work is a sincere attempt to study the future of emerging health scenario of OPD, the work examines various factors of healthcare providers’ participation which contributes to strength and improves the OPD performance. An attempt is made to study the present status of a health care scenario by focusing on the perceptions and profile of the healthcare providers’ participation in tertiary care hospitals. The study also gives some insight that can be used in forming revised plans and strategies to promote hospital OPD performance.


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Outpatient, Outpatient Department, Healthcare Providers, Patient.
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Sandesh Kumar Sharma
IIHMR University, Jaipur, India

Abstract


Objective: Main objective is to perceive the idea that healthcare providers’ involvement in management improves the performance of outpatient department.

Methodology: The study was conducted in public private hospitals of Jaipur. Sample size of 150 was taken to carry out the research. Sampling method is convenient sampling, the result was analysed on SPSS and Microsoft excel bar charts were prepared for better understanding.

Results: The study was designed to see the health care providers’ participation with reference to tertiary care public & private hospitals of Jaipur. Measurement of patients’ perception is significant in order to drive health care providers to provide better services. The study was conducted in public and private hospitals to check the deficiency which can be overcome with the participation of health care providers.

Conclusion: This research work is a sincere attempt to study the future of emerging health scenario of OPD, the work examines various factors of healthcare providers’ participation which contributes to strength and improves the OPD performance. An attempt is made to study the present status of a health care scenario by focusing on the perceptions and profile of the healthcare providers’ participation in tertiary care hospitals. The study also gives some insight that can be used in forming revised plans and strategies to promote hospital OPD performance.


Keywords


Outpatient, Outpatient Department, Healthcare Providers, Patient.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.25089/MERI%2F2017%2Fv11%2Fi1%2F164136