In order to strengthen national competitiveness in attracting the UAE government sponsored patients, it is necessary to improve domestic medical service quality and satisfaction to increase the revisit intention.
This paper aims to investigate medic...
In order to strengthen national competitiveness in attracting the UAE government sponsored patients, it is necessary to improve domestic medical service quality and satisfaction to increase the revisit intention.
This paper aims to investigate medical service quality, satisfaction and to examine factors influencing hospital revisit intention of the United Arab Emirates government sponsored patients.
A total of 152 UAE government sponsored patients who visited Korean hospitals participated in the questionnaire survey during a four-month data collected period. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, correlations, stepwise multiple regression were employed using SPSS 23.0 to investigate the effects of Korean medical service quality and satisfaction on revisit intention of the United Arab Emirates government sponsored patients.
The mean score of medical service quality, satisfaction, revisit intention were 5.72 out of 7, 88.88 out of 100, 4.59 out of 5, respectively. Medical service quality and satisfaction (r=0.51, p<0.001), Medical service quality and revisit intention (r=0.23, p=0.005), satisfaction and revisit intention (r=0.35, p<0.001) were positively correlated. Doctor (β=0.398, p<0.001) of satisfaction, visiting path (β=0.377, p<0.001) and responsiveness (β=0.197, p=0.014) of medical service quality explained about 23.8% of revisit intention.
There are needs for doctors to communicate with patients while ensuring sufficient consultation time based on excellent medical skills and nurses to respond immediately for the patients’needs through an empathic encounter in order to improve medical service quality and patient satisfaction so that to increase the revisit intention of the United Arab Emirates government sponsored patients. Further, it is necessary for the hospitals to have support plans for providing country specialized services in consideration of the UAE culture to ensure that doctors and nurses' competencies are not undervalued by non-medical service elements such as interpreters and meals.