Variations in patient satisfaction with care for breast, lung, head and neck and prostate cancers in different cancer care settings

Seemingly identical nursing care can be measurably different between cancer care centres. Based on the findings the satisfaction variations can be attributed to factors personally experienced by the patients as well as to systemic hospital-level factors. The notion of patient satisfaction is important to clinical practice as a tool to assess and plan the nursing care and managers should bear in mind that patient satisfaction is sensitive to person specific variables as well as to many extraneous variables.