Assessing service quality and customer behavioral responses in hospital outpatient services: A formative measurement approach
Authors: Rizomyliotis, Ioannis 
Pierrakos, George 
Binioris, Spyridon 
Giovanis, Apostolos 
Issue Date: 18-Jun-2018
Journal: International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences 
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
Keywords: Behavioural intentions, Efficiency, Facilities condition, Formative measurement, Hospital outpatient services, Medical care, Nursing care, Patient satisfaction, Satisfaction, Service quality, Services management
Abstract: 
Purpose: In contrast to the reflective approach of service quality measurement, this paper aims to propose and validate a parsimonious multidimensional second-order formatively measured model of service quality for primary health-care services provided by hospital outpatient departments. The index’s empirical validity is examined by investigating the strength of its relationship with certain behavioral responses such as patient satisfaction and behavioral intentions.
Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through a stratified random sampling from eight hospital outpatient departments in Greece. Covariance-based structural equation modeling techniques were used to validate the proposed service quality index and further investigate its effect on patient satisfaction and behavioral intention.
Findings: The data analysis indicated that the proposed formative index is fully functional with medical care being the factor and mostly contributes to service quality perception, followed by administrative service and staff performance, and facilities condition and nursing care. It, further, confirmed the partial mediating role of satisfaction, as it enhances the high impact of service quality on behavioral intentions.
Research limitations/implications: The relationships among hospital outpatient departments service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioral intentions were validated with data from one country and a health-care system which is state driven and funded.
Practical implications: An understanding of hospital primary health-care service quality formation is important to health-care decision makers because it offers them the opportunity to consider patients’ needs and wants, and takes the appropriate actions for improving the relevant underling procedures in a more efficient manner to achieve favorable behavioral responses.
Originality/value: The paper manages to propose and empirically evaluate a formatively measured approach of service quality and investigate the effects of the proposed index on patient satisfaction and behavioral intention, especially in the hospital outpatient services context in Greece.
ISSN: 1756-6703
1756-669X
DOI: 10.1108/IJQSS-03-2017-0023
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/1607
Type: Article
Department: Department of Business Administration 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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