Table 2.

Job satisfaction using the Physician Satisfaction Survey (N = 354)

Item	Mean ± SD	Cronbach α
Quality of care	3.93 ± 0.61	0.83
Quality of nursing staff	3.96 ± 0.76
Staff’s concern and interest in your patient	3.95 ± 0.79
Timeliness of follow-through on written orders	3.85 ± 0.76
Staff’s reliability in recognising and reporting changes in patients’ conditions	3.95 ± 0.70
Ease of practice	3.89 ± 0.55	0.75
Turnaround for lab results	3.92 ± 0.70
Ease of scheduling inpatient test/therapy	4.01 ± 0.69
Ease of admitting patients	3.97 ± 0.77
Medical technology and equipment available in ICU/CCU	3.91 ± 0.84
Overall rating of the Emergency Department	3.65 ± 0.89
Relationship with leadership	3.67 ± 0.86	0.89
Communication between yourself and the hospital administration	3.79 ± 0.86
Responsiveness of the Hospital Administration to ideas and needs of medical staff members	3.57 ± 0.99
Your confidence in the Hospital Administration to ideas and needs of medical staff members	3.65 ± 0.96
Overall job satisfaction scale	3.85 ± 0.55	0.90

SD = standard deviation.