Religious affiliations and consumer behavior: an examination of hospitals.
The author re-examines the conclusions of an earlier study which contends that religious affiliation of a hospital is important in influencing hospital selection and contributes to overall patient satisfaction. In this new survey, patients ranked religious affiliation low in importance when choosing among hospitals. However, hospitals of a particular religious affiliation were more likely to be recalled, preferred, and selected by people of the same religious affiliation. Furthermore, on quality-of-care measures, religious affiliation influenced hospital evaluations.
Pennsylvania State University-Erie.
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D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002755:Choice Behavior; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States