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  • 2018 № 8 Use of NPS method for patient loyalty assessment (ICDC experience)

    This article studies the experience of the ‘Interregional clinical and diagnostic center’ (ICDC) in the area of patient loyalty assessment by the Net Promoter Score (NPS) method. The object: to find out the factors, which have an effect on patient loyalty towards a medical establishment. Materials and methods: analysis of scientific literature, ICDC statistic data of patient loyalty assessment by NPS method for 2016–2017 years. Total number of respondents: 1968 patients of ICDC. Results and conclusions: on the basis of analysis of patient responses the three factors that effect on patient loyalty were found out: “diagnostic and treatment processes”, “ethics and deontology of medical staff”, “service in medical establishment”. It is found that the largest proportion of critical remarks of patients is as¬sociated with the service in medical establishment. In turn the important aspects for “promoters” – patients with high loyalty, are the followings: quality of medical service, ethics and deontology of medical staff. Statistically significant differences were determined in medical establishment evaluation by patient groups who pays for medical service itself and who is treated by compulsory health insurance system. Representatives of these groups pay attention in their comments to different aspects of medical establishment activity. Therefore it is necessary to consider specific features of such patient groups in the arrangements considering the increase of patient loyalty

    Authors: Kupriyanov R. V. [6] Zharkova E. V. [3] Khairullin R. N. [6]

    Tags: medical and preventive treatment facilities2 nps1 patient loyalty3 promoters1

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