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Horizonte sanitario
On-line version ISSN 2007-7459Print version ISSN 1665-3262
Abstract
CALERO, Remedios; GALLARZA, Martina G. and LORENZO-ROMERO, Carlota. Does patient loyalty depends on gender and age?. Horiz. sanitario [online]. 2018, vol.17, n.2, pp.95-101. ISSN 2007-7459. https://doi.org/10.19136/hs.a17n2.209.
Objective:
To conceptualize and empirically analyse patient loyalty behaviour to a hospital, according to patient’s demographic characteristics: gender and age.
Materials and methods:
Hospitalization and outpatient surgery records from patients of Valencia, Spain Region during 2012 (more than one million of records from an internal database from Health Council named COMPAS) are considered as secondary data for empirical research. They are analysed considering loyalty measures (capture, retention and dropout rates).
Results:
The variance analysis show there are not meaningful differences in gender. Regarding age, results show increased recruitment, retention and dropout rates in the lower age group (paediatrics).
Conclusions:
From a strategic perspective, on a pay per person system, these results become useful to health managers and researchers, confirming differences in patient loyalty depending on age.
Keywords : Health services research; Patient care management; Population characteristics.