Tytuł:

Zone of tolerance for healthcare services: a diagnostic model of public and private hospital service quality

Tytuł publikacji grupowej:

Argumenta Oeconomica

Autor:

Nadiri, Halil ; Hussain, Kashif

Temat i słowa kluczowe:

service quality ; customer satisfaction ; zone of tolerance ; healthcare services ; public and private hospitals

Opis:

Argumenta Oeconomica, 2016, Nr 2 (37), s. 245-280

Abstrakt:

This study compares the quality of services provided by public and private hospitals in North Cyprus. The paper describes the zone of tolerance for patients’ service expectations and determines patient satisfaction level for public and private hospitals. The ‘zone of tolerance’ is recognized in the service-quality literature as representing a range of expectations (desired and adequate) and an area of acceptable outcomes in service interactions. The patient satisfaction level of public and private hospitals is identified and compared. The conceptual model, HEALTHZOT, is presented in this study and the results demonstrate that the evaluation of services can be scaled according to different types of expectations – ‘desired’ and ‘adequate’ – and that patients use these two types of expectations as a comparison standard in evaluating healthcare services. The results obtained for public and private hospital services represent a narrow zone of tolerance. Patients’ ‘perceived service received’ in public hospitals was lower when compared to private hospital services. The results of an exploratory factor analysis reveal that the SERVQUAL model is found to be unidimensional for both the public and private hospitals in this study. The results, managerial implications and future research implications are discussed below in detail

Wydawca:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

Miejsce wydania:

Wrocław

Data wydania:

2016

Typ zasobu:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Identyfikator zasobu:

doi:10.15611/aoe.2016.2.10

Język:

eng

Powiązania:

Argumenta Oeconomica, 2016, Nr 2 (37)

Prawa:

Wszystkie prawa zastrzeżone (Copyright)

Prawa dostępu:

Dla wszystkich w zakresie dozwolonego użytku

Lokalizacja oryginału:

Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu