Abstract
Background: With the development of technology in recent years, booking appointment software systems have gained special and significant popularity among physicians and patients. For this purpose, this study aimed to improve the queuing services of Isfahan School of Dentistry, examine the types of booking systems of the School of Dentistry and report the level of patient satisfactionMethods: The study was descriptive and cross-sectional. The questionnaire was prepared using Zhang study in 2014 and the standard Forward-Backward translation method. In order to investigate the validity, the opinions of the professors of Isfahan Dental School were taken and the professional opinions of the individuals were applied. The questionnaire was distributed among patients referring to the dental school who had undergone the initial examination. After completing the data, SPSS software version 20 and descriptive and analytical statistical tests were used to analyze the data (a = 0.05).Results: In this study, independent t-test, Kruscal-Wallis test and Pearson correlation test were used to investigate the data. The Kruscal-Wallis test showed that overall satisfaction was significantly higher in patients who booked appointment online than in other patients (P = 0.003). The independent t-test showed that the mean scores of patient satisfaction with staff behavior (P = 0.03) and satisfaction with the waiting time (P = 0.01) were significantly different between native, non-native and passenger patients.Conclusion: Most of the people surveyed were generally relatively satisfied with the booking appointment services. Most of them surveyed came in person to queue. Most people cited cheap services as the main reason for their visits. Most people cited telephone busy signal as the reason for not using the telephone booking system.
Evaluation of patients' satisfaction on booking appointment system in dental school of Isfahan during 2018
