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KMID : 0926620030080030049
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Korean Journal of Hospital Management
2003 Volume.8 No. 3 p.49 ~ p.71
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The Influence of Dental Service Qualities on The Patient Satisfaction and Royalty in Dental Clinics and Hospitals
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Kim Yang-Kyun
Jung Kee-Taig
Ann Young-Song
Lee Sang-Eun
Jang Young-Hwa
Han Bo-Ra
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Abstract
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The purpose of the study is exploring the relationship among patient perceived quality of dental care, satisfaction, and royalty in dental clinics and hospitals. The observation of the study is outpatient visiting dental clinics and hospitals located in Seoul and Kyung-Gi Do area, and surveyed the outpatients. The contents of the survey are consisted with questions including quality of care perceived by the patients, costumer satisfaction, and royalty, and measurement for each question is using five point Likert scale. According to result of bi-variate analysis, there was the significant relationship among specialized care, value of the care, and kindness in quality of dental services, level of care in dentists significantly influenced on costumer satisfaction and costumer royalty, and there was the significant relationship between costumer satisfaction and royalty. According to result of regression analysis on the costumer satisfaction, the costumer satisfaction positively related with the convenience of facility, specialized care, value of care, patient age, number of visit, and spend time for treatment, and housewives and self-employees were likely to satisfy on care than regular employees. By result of full regression model and reduced model on costumer royalty, satisfaction could explain 86% on the costumer royalty such as re-visit and promoting other people, and increase of explain power is not significant when other independent variables joined model (full model). Considering efficiency of model, costumer royalty could be explained by satisfaction only rather than other independent variables used. Finally, This study shows that the social-demographic variables of patient influenced the patient satisfaction, and the patient satisfaction influenced patient royalty directly.
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KEYWORD
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Perceived Quality of Dental Care, Costumer Satisfaction, Costumer Royalty, Regression, Full Model, Reduced Model
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