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Table 3 SERVQUAL questionnaire scales and their respective fuzzy numbers.

From: Application of the QFD-fuzzy-SERVQUAL methodology as a quality planning tool at the surgical centre of a public teaching hospital

Scale 1

Scale 2

Scale 3

Fuzzy number

Expectation

Perception

Importance

   

Linguistic variable

Linguistic variable

Linguistic variable

a

m

b

Very low

Too bad

Very low

0.0

0.0

0.25

Low

Bad

Low

0.0

0.25

0.5

Average

Average

Average

0.25

0.5

0.75

High

Good

High

0.5

0.75

1

Very high

Very good

Very high

0.75

1

1