“…In the context of the above extant works, other studies have supported that health sector patients are essentially regarded as health-care customers, who deliberately make the choice to purchase the services and providers that best meet their health-care needs (Worlu et al, 2016;Borishade et al, 2018;Kim and Michelman, 1990). Regarding this, patient satisfaction and health-care quality are two important factors to achieve high quality (Borishade et al, 2018). Patient satisfaction, often defined as a desirable outcome of care, possibly representing an element of the overall health of an individual (Donabedian, 1966), has been found to be related to physician conduct, service availability, continuity, confidence, efficiency and outcomes (Ware et al, 1978); caring, empathy, reliability and responsiveness customization, professional credibility, competence and communications (Tucker and Adams, 2001).…”