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An Analysis on the Factors Affecting Revisit and Defection of Long-term Outpatients in Neighboring Pharmacy of General Hospital  

Oh, Chang-Kyun (Department of Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy, The Graduate School of Food and Drug Administration, Chung-ang University)
Choi, Byung-Chul (Department of Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy, The Graduate School of Food and Drug Administration, Chung-ang University)
Sohn, Uy-Dong (Department of Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy, The Graduate School of Food and Drug Administration, Chung-ang University)
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YAKHAK HOEJI / v.49, no.6, 2005 , pp. 449-458 More about this Journal
Abstract
There have been rapid changes in the pharmaceutical environment after the separation of Dispensing and Prescribing practice. In the early stage of this system, outpatients had few options to choose their pharmacies due to various obstacles. Under these circumstances, this study on the defection tendency of long-term care patients was performed through the analysis of outpatients who quit visiting a pharmacy nearby general hospital. PowerBuilder ver 9.0 program was used to extract significant data, and SPSS package was employed for statistic analysis. 3,308 outpatients who visited a pharmacy nearby hospital for a month (in January, 2004) were studied. Patients' sex, age and location of residence, the class of medical insurance, the characteristic type of medication (powder, split form, medication for external use/injection), waiting time, disease (department) were considered as variable factors. It turned out that the patient revisit ratio was 80.8$\%$ and the patient defection ratio was 32.4$\%$. As was expected, those factors mentioned above influenced on the revisit and defection ratio considerably. In terms of patient factors, it proved that there was no relationship among sex, location of residence, the class of medical insurance and revisit (defection) ratio. Only age factor influenced the ratio; the older, the higher revisit ratio and the less defection ratio. In respect of dispensing factors, there were obvious relationships among the factors and the ratio: bill (money they had to pay individually), waiting time, number of medications, splitting of tablets, unit price of drug and revisit (defection) ratio showed significant relationship. The result of this study revealed an aspect of outpatients' behavior and it could be used as a reference for better patient service and customer relationship management.
Keywords
Separation of Dispensing and Prescribing; patient loyalty; revisit ratio; defection ratio;
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