It is important for the marketer to understand the processes involved which contribute to a favorable overall
experience for the patients. The overall experience for the patients involve a number of factors such as doctor’s
competence, his interaction with the patients, behavior of the paramedical staff, various facilities offered by the hospital,
behavior of support staff and overall hygiene and ambience of the hospital.
Consumer loyalty is an indispensible performance measurement tool for profit as well as non-profit organizations
to sustain competitive advantage (Kotler, 1998) and to enhance business/service performance measures. There are various
problems faced by the patients in out patient departments, like overcrowding, delay in consultations, lack of proper
guidance that leads to patient dissatisfaction.
The organizations endeavor to measure relationship and patient loyalty offers a lot of advantages such as
sustaining competitive pressure, increasing loyalties, reducing the need to compete solely on price basis and increasing
new patient base by referrals.
Such a study will also help the consumers in developing stronger and more comfortable relationships with the
providers, instill more confidence in them towards providers, avoid seeking out and evaluating other providers. Nowdays
patients, are looking for easy and quick services in this fast growing world. The patients in general develop loyalty towards
Impact Factor(JCC): 0.8127 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us
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hospitals based on significant interpersonal experiences they have with the doctors and nurses and about the quality of
services of the hospital.
Hence this study is undertaken with objectives to study the awareness of patients regarding the outpatient
department services, to analyse the performance of the services in the patients perspective and finding problematic areas
and solutions to them.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
It is important for the marketer to understand the processes involved which contribute to a favorable overall
experience for the patients. The overall experience for the patients involve a number of factors such as doctor’s
competence, his interaction with the patients, behavior of the paramedical staff, various facilities offered by the hospital,
behavior of support staff and overall hygiene and ambience of the hospital.
Consumer loyalty is an indispensible performance measurement tool for profit as well as non-profit organizations
to sustain competitive advantage (Kotler, 1998) and to enhance business/service performance measures. There are various
problems faced by the patients in out patient departments, like overcrowding, delay in consultations, lack of proper
guidance that leads to patient dissatisfaction.
The organizations endeavor to measure relationship and patient loyalty offers a lot of advantages such as
sustaining competitive pressure, increasing loyalties, reducing the need to compete solely on price basis and increasing
new patient base by referrals.
Such a study will also help the consumers in developing stronger and more comfortable relationships with the
providers, instill more confidence in them towards providers, avoid seeking out and evaluating other providers. Nowdays
patients, are looking for easy and quick services in this fast growing world. The patients in general develop loyalty towards
Impact Factor(JCC): 0.8127 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us
----------------------- Page 2-----------------------
38 R. Gopal & Satvinder Singh Bedi
hospitals based on significant interpersonal experiences they have with the doctors and nurses and about the quality of
services of the hospital.
Hence this study is undertaken with objectives to study the awareness of patients regarding the outpatient
department services, to analyse the performance of the services in the patients perspective and finding problematic areas
and solutions to them.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
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