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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

2010

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An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach To Assess Health Service Quality, Yan Li Aug 2010

An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach To Assess Health Service Quality, Yan Li

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While improving quality in health care is currently at the forefront of professional, political, and managerial attention, the key dimensions constituting health-care quality have not been fully understood. Also, few valid approaches have been proposed to the measurement of health-care quality. In this research, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach is applied to study the structure of health-care quality and deducted relative importance weights for each of the quality elements. A statistical quality model is derived to assess medical equipment quality which is an important part constituting the general health-care quality. Finally, the application of the AHP model to assess …