Measuring patients' perceived hospital service quality: a case study of Nepal's Private Hospital
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2017
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International Research E-Journal on Business and Economics 3, 1 (May 2017), 18-40
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Measuring patients' perceived hospital service quality: a case study of Nepal's Private Hospital
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Abstract
With the shift in focus to patient recognizing healthcare to be different compared to other
services, service quality measurement needs to be tuned specifically to healthcare. The
purpose of this paper is to describe hospital service quality of Nepal's private hospital as
perceived by Nepalese patients and to which patients’ satisfaction of health service
quality impact upon their behavioral intention. Descriptive survey study design was
adopted for this study. Survey method and 400 questionnaires were distributed to the outpatient. Only four private hospitals were evaluated in Kathmandu City. The data was
analyzed using simple linear regression Analysis was applied to envisage the relation
between dependent and independent variables. The researcher found that there exists a
correlation between customer satisfaction and behavioral intention. Also, hospital service
quality has an impact upon customer satisfaction. From the findings the researcher
concludes to develop the right approaches personalization need to be improved which
stabilizes the system appropriately and be contextualized to the true environment of the
Nepalese consumers. Healthcare provider and hospital management should allocate the
effort towards personalization to maximize patient satisfaction and to improve the
perceived quality of healthcare services.
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