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Patient satisfaction is a useful metric for evaluating service quality in healthcare organizations. This study examined total quality management as a factor mediating the relationship between customer expectations and satisfaction. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to inpatients...
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Some food items that are commonly considered unhealthy also tend to elicit impulsive responses. The pain of paying in cash can curb impulsive urges to purchase such unhealthy food products. Credit card payments, in contrast, are relatively painless and weaken impulse control. Consequently,...
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Previous research on sustainability and health-related product labels has sought to develop segmentation frameworks based on consumers' self-reports. However, consumers are likely to overstate the effect that these labels have on their purchasing behavior. Moreover, existing consumer...
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We use Swedish data on 330,000 consumer choices of medically equivalent drugs to study the zero-price effect first documented by Shampanier et al. (2007) in experimental settings. The Swedish benefit scheme implies that, during a given month, all consumers face the same price-differences between...
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In this paper we use published information to provide analyze the economic value of Direct to Consumer (DTC) advertising. We use information on: the effect of DTC in generating patient visits; the effect of patient visits and mentions of a drug in generating prescriptions; and the effect of...
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The effects of television advertising in the market for health insurance are of distinct interest to both firms and regulators. Regulators are concerned about firms potentially using ads to "cream skim," or attract an advantageous risk pool, as well as the potential for firms to use...
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Mobile phones with banking technology are becoming more readily available in Vietnam. Similarly, many financial institutions and mobile phone service providers are teaming up to provide several banking services to customers via the mobile phone. However, the number of people who choose to adopt...
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Internet banking is becoming a new focus as the number of internet users and its benefits are increasing worldwide. However, the degree of intent to use internet banking is still a question of interest. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting attitude and...
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