Description

The Patient-Doctor Interaction Scale (PDIS) can be used to assess the level of satisfaction that a patient feels for a recent physician encounter. It is a versatile instrument that can be administered in several ways and provides reliable feedback.


 

The instrument consists of 19 questions.

 

"Positive" direction: 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 18, 19

"Negative" direction: 1, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17

 

Response

"Positive" Points

"Negative" Points

strongly disagree

1

5

disagree

2

4

unsure

3

3

agree

4

2

strongly agree

5

1

 

Interpretation:

• minimum score: 19

• maximum score: 95

• The higher the score, the greater the level of expressed satisfaction for the physician encounter.

 


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