Modelo para avaliar a qualidade do serviço de alimentação no hospital universitário Getúlio Vargas.

Abstract

At Getúlio Vargas University Hospital (GVUH), like other public hospitals, the food service little knows about the quality perceived by its customers, once there is not a model that allows to evaluate it and improve it systematically. Faced with this problem, this dissertation has the main objective to develop a model to evaluate the quality of the food service for the patients at Getúlio Vargas University Hospital (GVUH), in order to propose suggestions for improvements to the Hospital Management at Getúlio Vargas University Hospital(GVUH). However, literature researches were performed to identify evaluation models applied in the hospital environment then sought to develop and test a model, whose instrument of data collection was a questionnaire consisting of thirty questions, which was applied during the months of October and November 2011, with the 120 patients admitted to Getúlio Vargas University Hospital (GVUH). The data was analyzed and transformed in statistical graphics and was distributed in general form and also by each clinic in the hospital. After analyzing the data collected, the main conclusion of the research was that the model developed and tested can serve as an instrument for the managers of the hospital to obtain a better quality service while also improving the items identified as lower levels of satisfaction with the patients investigated. These items are: Taste the food, the menu variety, food texture, punctuality for lunch delivery, temperature of the food and friendliness of the waitress during the service.