Resumen

ARANGUREN IBARRA, Zaida. Medición de la satisfacción de los usuarios de los servicios de salud del instituto de previsión del profesorado de la universidad central de venezuela, durante el último trimestre del 2004. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2009, vol.47, n.1, pp.62-67. ISSN 0001-6365.

To establish and to validate the quality of a service, to determine its value, as well as to design and apply instruments to appraise the perception and quality expectations of users, and finally to consider the factors in the redesign of the service. This should be constituted as a critical aspect of the work of effective health services management. When we apply the information that provides us with a measurement of the quality of the service, we can help to propitiate criteria towards the improvement of the areas and towards the most satisfactory attention for the beneficiaries of the evaluated service. In this investigation a quality measurement of service was performed, mainly orientated to the satisfaction of the needs of the users in the relation to health care attention. An instrument was designed which when validated, was applied to a sample of 260 persons who were present at the medical service and at the dentistry service of the Institute, all persons were over 18 years old and selected at random. In the surveys, a number of variables were taken into consideration, in such way that it would possible to express in operational terms a concept that is as subjective as the quality of a service. It was perceived that participants were mostly satisfied with the treatment provided by physicians and dentists. However, the same sample group seemed to be dissatisfied with the system of appointments used by the same entity.

Palabras clave : Quality of services; services of health; users' satisfaction.