Customer satisfaction is the most important parameter for judging the quality of service being provided by a service provider to the customer. Positive feedback from the customer leads to the goodwill of service providers in the market, which indirectly expands their business, whereas negative feedback makes it shrink. This theory is also applicable to health care providers. Nowadays, patients are aware of their rights in terms of health care services and the quality of health care services being delivered to them. There are various tools or indicators which are set to provide the quality of services for patients without any acquired infection. In this article, literature review has been done to study various tools given by distinct authors and customer satisfaction and quality indicators given by health organizations to measure quality in the health care sector.
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