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- Title
Do patients value a hospital’s innovativeness reputation? A multi-method approach to assess the relative importance of innovativeness reputation in patients’ hospital choice.
- Authors
Gurtner, Sebastian; Hietschold, Nadine; Vaquero Martín, María
- Abstract
Innovations in health care are costly and risky, but they also provide the opportunity for hospitals to increase quality of care, to distinguish themselves from competitors and to attract patients. While numerous hospitals strive to increase their innovativeness by adopting a costly innovation leader strategy, the question of whether this actually influences the patient’s choice remains unanswered. To understand the role of innovativeness from the patient perspective, this study conceptualizes the construct of innovativeness reputation of hospitals and determines its relevance in patients’ hospital choice decisions. In the pretest, we identified six dimensions of innovativeness reputation such as progressive work procedures and value added services. We then used three different quantitative multi-criteria decision-making methods to evaluate the relative importance of innovativeness reputation in patient choice. We collected data from 355 former German patients who had undergone elective non-emergency surgery. Overall, innovativeness reputation accounts for 11.6%–16.8% of the patient decision. Innovativeness reputation has a moderate influence on hospital choice and should be taken into account by managers. Since technical innovations are costly, hospitals should use other means to enhance their innovative image. Strategies such as emphasizing value added services can enable hospitals to increase their innovativeness reputation efficiently.
- Subjects
ARCHITECTURE; CHI-squared test; CLINICAL competence; CONTENT analysis; DECISION making; DIFFUSION of innovations; HEALTH facility administration; HEALTH services administrators; HOSPITALS; RESEARCH methodology; NONPARAMETRIC statistics; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALE analysis (Psychology); STATISTICS; ELECTIVE surgery; WORK environment; QUANTITATIVE research; DATA analysis software; PATIENTS' attitudes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
- Publication
Health Services Management Research, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 3, p138
- ISSN
0951-4848
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0951484817748157