ABSTRACT
Objective To develop electronic touch-screen inpatient satisfaction questionnaires so as to improve the real-fimeness and accuracy of data processing in patient satisfaction surveys and evaluations. Methods 266 inpatients from 20 clinical departments of a certain hospital in Zhangjiakou were asked to make satisfaction evaluations via a touch screen and the reliability and validity of the questionnaires were assessed by statistical and psychological means. Results The item response rate was 98.72％, the effective rate was 98.1％, and the a reliability coefficient for internal consistency was 0.9474; the composition of the questionnaires, which matched the reality of management, supported contents validity; a factor analysis showed that the factor load and structure, which matched the structure of the questionnaires, supported structure validity; intra-factor correlations, which were stronger than interfactor correlations, supported aggregation and discrimination validity. Conclusion The questionnaires, reliable andvalid, interface friendly and easy to operate, facilitate their use by patients with different backgrounds. The real-time occurrence and antomatic pooling of survey data render possible the automation of data collection in patient satisfaction surveys and evaluations.