Towards the new primary care reform in Greece: a focus on patients' expectations, views and perceptions from rural healthcare centres.

Introduction: Patient perception of quality of care is an essential component in evaluating healthcare delivery. This article reports data from primary health care (PHC) centers before Greece's most recent PHC reform. The study was undertaken to offer some baseline information about patient experience, support the decision-making processes taking place, and provide valuable input for future policy-making comparisons in Greece.

Robustness of the EUROPEP questionnaire as regards data quality, reliability, and construct validity: The Greek experience before and after the economic crisis.

Objectives: To assess the data quality, reliability, and construct validity of the Greek EUROPEP and to examine the instrument's robustness in terms of its psychometric properties in a pre- and post-economic crisis period.

Methods: Taking into account the two key factors that affect the accuracy and quality of survey data, that is the representativeness of the sample selected from the population, and the response rate, four hundred ninety-two and five hundred thirty-two patients (492 and 532 patients) pre- and post-crisis, respectively, consulting GPs at 16 Primary Health Care Centers (PHCCs) in Greece were invited to complete the Greek EUROPEP. We assessed item missing, ceiling and floor effects, and used factor analysis to assess the structure of the 23 items of the EUROPEP.