Papers
Prioritization of Service Quality Dimensions for Healthcare Sector
Author(s)Rafikul Islam
International Islamic University Malaysia
Malaysia
Selim Ahmed
Kazi Md. Tarique
Publication date: Apr, 2016
Journal: International Journal of Medical Engineering and InformaticsVol.: 8- Issue: 2- Pages: 2016
Publisher: InderScience
Abstract: Due to the unique nature among the service industries, the overriding objective of the healthcare sector is to provide error free, impeccable services to their patients and clientele. It is not an option rather a norm for the healthcare sector to uphold and maintain the level of service that is quintessential and benchmark in the service industries. However, service quality has different meanings to different people. In this paper, SERVQUAL has been considered as the main tool to measure service quality and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been applied to prioritise the five dimensions of SERVQUAL for healthcare sector. In addition to this, AHP has been applied to prioritise the various items representing each of the dimensions. The results show that Reliability and Assurance are the two most important service quality dimensions in the healthcare sector. The priorities of dimensions and their items are also determined with respect to a selected demographic factors on the part of the respondents.
Keywords: AHP, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Healthcare