An Effect of Medical Service Quality on Relationship Quality, Customer Satisfaction and Reuse Intent in Oriental Medical Hospital

한방병원 의료서비스품질이 관계품질, 고객만족, 재이용의도에 미치는 영향

  • Cho, Chul-Ho (Dept. of Hospital Management, Daegu Haany University)
  • 조철호 (대구한의대학교 의료경영학과)
  • Received : 2010.04.26
  • Accepted : 2010.06.10
  • Published : 2010.06.30

Abstract

These days, customer satisfaction and relationship quality are regarded as important mediating factor in successful hospital management. Generally, service quality affects relationship quality, customer satisfaction and reuse intent in diverse service industries, and most of researchers agree to this conclusion. This study is designed to explore medical service quality in Oriental Medical Hospital and causal relationship among medical service quality, customer satisfaction, relationship quality and reuse intention. Through conclusion of this study, we could find that Oriental medical service quality factors are composed of medical staff, subsidiary facilities, medical facilities and administration service, and they affected relationship quality and reuse intent directly and indirectly through customer satisfaction. Moreover we found that customer satisfaction and relationship quality were playing an important role as connecting bridge between service quality and reuse intent.

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