Article: Physician Satisfaction With Clinical Laboratory Services: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 138 Institutions

* Context.-Monitoring customer satisfaction is a valuable component of a laboratory quality improvement program.

Objective.-To survey the level of physician satisfaction with hospital clinical laboratory services.

Design.-Participating institutions provided demographic and practice information and survey results of physician satisfaction with defined aspects of clinical laboratory services, rated on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent).

Results.-One hundred thirty-eight institutions participated in this study and submitted a total of 4329 physician surveys. The overall satisfaction score for all institutions ranged from 2.9 to 5.0. The median overall score for all participants was 4.1 (10th ...

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