{"title":"An empirical investigation of two competing models of patient satisfaction.","authors":"D P Mishra, J Singh, V Wood","doi":"10.1300/J273v04n02_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J273v04n02_02","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper empirically examines two competing models of patient satisfaction. Specifically, a five factor SERVQUAL model proposed by Parasuraman et al. (1988) and a tripartite model posited by Smith, Bloom, and Davis (1986) are examined. The two models are tested via factor analysis based on data collected from a field survey of hospital patients. The results of this study indicate that the five dimensional SERVQUAL model is not supported by data. On the other hand, there is general support for the tripartite model. Implications of our results for health care practitioners and researchers are discussed. Future directions for research are also outlined.</p>","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"4 2","pages":"17-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J273v04n02_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20981000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Importance/performance analysis: a tool for service quality control by clinical laboratories.","authors":"D L Scammon, R Weiss","doi":"10.1300/J273v04n02_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J273v04n02_06","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study of customer satisfaction with clinical laboratory service is used as the basis for identifying potential improvements in service and more effectively targeting marketing activities to enhance customer satisfaction. Data on customer satisfaction are used to determine the aspects of service most critical to customers, how well the organization is doing in delivery of service, and how consistent service delivery is. Importance-performance analysis is used to highlight areas for future resource reallocation and strategic emphasis. Suggestions include the establishment of performance guidelines for customer contact personnel, the enhancement of timely delivery of reports via electronic transmission (computer and fax), and the development of standardized graphics for request and report forms to facilitate identification of appropriate request forms and guide clients to key items of information on reports.</p>","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"4 2","pages":"71-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20982717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of demand for a healthcare system membership plan: an intent translation approach.","authors":"R Gates, C McDaniel, G Jarboe","doi":"10.1300/J273v04n02_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J273v04n02_03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"4 2","pages":"37-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20981003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The decision process for selecting a retirement community.","authors":"E L Grubb, T Golda","doi":"10.1300/J273v03n02_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J273v03n02_08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"3 2","pages":"87-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20975725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is quality of health care a meaningful guide?","authors":"D L Scrammon, D A Fuller","doi":"10.1300/J273v03n02_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J273v03n02_04","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health care consumers are beginning to learn that \"what you don't know can hurt you.\" Though consumers consistently rank quality of care as an important attribute, \"quality of care\" does not appear to be particularly useful in decision making. The quality of health care is difficult to measure, communicate, and interpret. Yet if consumers are to make efficient choices including both value and cost in their decisions, quality information must be available to them. This paper outlines a scheme to conceptualize quality of care and suggests some ways to operationalize measures of quality that could provide empirically based indices of quality of care to facilitate health care consumer decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"3 2","pages":"19-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20977719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Something's not working--but it's not marketing.","authors":"G L Wise, V Sethi","doi":"10.1300/J273v03n02_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J273v03n02_03","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper addresses both the increased use of marketing by hospitals and frustrations which have more recently been felt with such programs. A series of seven factors are presented as suggested explanations of current dissatisfaction with the effectiveness of marketing efforts in the hospital of the late 1980s.</p>","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"3 2","pages":"3-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20977721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Market segmentation for multiple option healthcare delivery systems--an application of cluster analysis.","authors":"G R Jarboe, R H Gates, C D McDaniel","doi":"10.1300/J273v03n02_09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J273v03n02_09","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthcare providers of multiple option plans may be confronted with special market segmentation problems. This study demonstrates how cluster analysis may be used for discovering distinct patterns of preference for multiple option plans. The availability of metric, as opposed to categorical or ordinal, data provides the ability to use sophisticated analysis techniques which may be superior to frequency distributions and cross-tabulations in revealing preference patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"3 2","pages":"101-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20977718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumers' satisfaction with health care delivery: issues of measurement, issues of research design.","authors":"J Singh, V R Wood, J Goolsby","doi":"10.1300/j273v04n01_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j273v04n01_10","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The measurement and tracking of patient satisfaction is an area of increasing importance today. Because of this importance, researchers have begun to more closely examine conceptual, operational and research design issues implicated in this measurement. In this context, this paper focuses on selected research design issues. Three key issues are discussed; namely, appropriate measures, item phrasing and data collection approaches. Issues, problem areas and suggested recommendations are provided. We hope our discussion will help future researchers achieve better and more meaningful measurement of patient satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"4 1","pages":"105-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20982749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overcoming the promotional bias in health care marketing: a human relations approach.","authors":"A H Walle","doi":"10.1300/j273v04n01_12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j273v04n01_12","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years the health care industry in general and ambulatory care in specific has been in a state of intense competition. In an attempt to survive and prosper, many health related organizations have turned to marketing as a means of developing viable strategies. Unfortunately, all too often the marketing function is equated with advertising and promotion: a small subsection of what a total marketing effort should be. In this paper, means of overcoming this limitation will be discussed using a human relations approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"4 1","pages":"131-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20982751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rehabilitating the injured worker: opportunities and pitfalls.","authors":"L N Matheson","doi":"10.1300/j273v04n01_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j273v04n01_05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"4 1","pages":"39-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20982402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}