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Top Departments by Satisfaction
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Top Departments by Satisfaction

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a SQL query to find the top 3 departments by average patient satisfaction score within each hospital at UC San Francisco.

Use the hospitals, departments, and patient_satisfaction tables. Exclude departments without at least one non-null satisfaction score.

Output

  1. One row per selected department, with hospital_name, department_name, average_satisfaction_score, and department_rank.
  2. Return at most three departments per hospital, ordered by hospital name, rank, and department name. Break equal averages alphabetically by department name.

Schema

hospitals
ColumnTypeDescription
hospital_idPKINTUnique hospital identifier
hospital_nameVARCHAR(100)Hospital name
departments
ColumnTypeDescription
department_idPKINTUnique department identifier
hospital_idINTHospital containing the department
department_nameVARCHAR(100)Department name
patient_satisfaction
ColumnTypeDescription
survey_idPKINTUnique survey identifier
department_idINTDepartment associated with the survey
satisfaction_scoreNUMERIC(4,2)Patient satisfaction score from 0.00 to 5.00
survey_dateDATEDate the survey was submitted
Tableshospitalsdepartmentspatient_satisfaction
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