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- Title
Patient-Centered Care and Healthcare Consumerism in Online Healthcare Service Advertisements: A Positioning Analysis.
- Authors
Sung-Yeon Park; Gi Woong Yun; Friedman, Sarah; Hill, Kylie; Coppes, Max J.
- Abstract
Patient-centered care and healthcare consumerism are the two most dominant ideas about the relationship between patients and providers in the United States. To identify providers' positions between the two perspectives, we analyzed the content of direct-to-consumer healthcare service advertisements. The advertisements were collected in the state of Nevada (N=323) and their landing pages were analyzed for provider attributes, patient experience features, and terms referring to patients and providers. The results showed that the advertisements fully embraced the notion of patient-centeredness by commonly claiming patient-centered care and frequently using the term "patient." The advertisements also contained multiple indicators of healthcare consumerism, although they avoided using the terms "consumer/customer/client" closely associated with consumerism. Contrary to the prominence of patient experience features, provider attributes were not common. An additional analysis of inter-specialty differences in advertising features confirmed the strong consumerism position of cosmetic surgery providers. Application of the healthcare service advertising analytic scheme developed for this study could help providers and healthcare administrators recognize how their advertising messages may reflect their values.
- Publication
Journal of Patient Experience, 2022, Vol 9, p1
- ISSN
2374-3735
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/23743735221133636