This study was intended to analyze how the customer value and customer satisfaction in the medical service quality impacted the customer's intention of medical service reuse and to find out the management strategies of local hospitals.
For it, the Ch...
This study was intended to analyze how the customer value and customer satisfaction in the medical service quality impacted the customer's intention of medical service reuse and to find out the management strategies of local hospitals.
For it, the Chapter 1 described a issue raising, objective of the study, method and scope of the study. Chapter 2 mentioned a base of an empirical analysis through theoretical consideration on the medical service quality, customer value, customer satisfaction, and reuse intention. Chapter 3 set the study model and hypotheses based on a theory as a research design, and introduced a questionnaire. Chapter 4 mentioned general characteristics of sample through a frequency analysis for the empirical analysis. The medical service quality was classified into a doctor's treatment level, nurse and administrative staff's service level, and physical service level. Also, a factor analysis was performed, and Cronbach'α was used to verify the factor's reliability and validity. Hypotheses were verified through a regression analysis.
There are results of the empirical analysis as follows. First, it was indicated that the medical service quality had a good effect on the customer satisfaction. It proved that the positive performance cognition had a strong connection with the customer satisfaction in a position of the customer. Also, as the result of examining a relation between sub-factors which are composed of the service quality and the customer satisfaction, it was confirmed that all of the doctor's treatment level, nurse and administrative staff's service level, and physical service level of the hospital had the good effect on the customer satisfaction. Accordingly, doctors must give a sufficient explanation about the treatment to patients. A capability and trust of staff who are concerned about the customer's demand and deal with it properly must be cultivated. Besides, convenient facilities, comfortable environment, and parking facilities need to be arranged for customers.
Second, customers said there is a negative point of temporal sacrifice even though they could accept an economic sacrifice to receive the satisfactory service. The hospital must strive to reduce the customer's waiting time by developing a system.
Finally, it was shown that the customer satisfaction had very good effect on the customer's reuse intention which was a post behavior. It means that the customer who is satisfied with the medical service will visit the hospital again. It also means that the customer who thought they received the satisfactory service compared with paid amount will visit the hospital again.
Chapter 5 mentioned a summary and limitation of the study result as a conclusion.
As shown in the above mentioned contents, it can be confirmed that there is a close relation between the medical service quality and the sacrifice & value and between the medical consumer's satisfaction and the customer's reuse intention in the medical consumer's response process. It is very suggestive that Korean hospitals must cope with changing medical environment actively and must establish a market strategy for an improvement of the medical service.
In relation to a meaning of the study, characteristics of the medical service quality mentioned in many preceding studies need to be simplified in the core aspect. It is because an approach method which increases the strategic effect has been required by simplifying a management and control aspect of the service quality and by improving the strategic effect in terms of the strategic aspect of the medical service.