Tracking Social Perception on Healthcare Service Quality Using Social Media

Hong Joo Lee, Minsik Lee and Habin Lee
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Hong Joo Lee: Catholic University of Korea, South Korea
Minsik Lee: Yonsei University, South Korea
Habin Lee: Brunel University London, United Kingdom

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Abstract: Despite the opportunities and demands to use social media to support public policy-making processes, a systematic approach to reflect social media sentiments in policy making processes is yet to be proposed in the literature. This paper suggests a systematic method to assign tweets into one of SERVQUAL dimensions to identify sentiments and to track perceived service quality for policy makers in national health services (NHS). In this study, we propose a methodology to (1) identify more reliable topic sets through repeated LDA and clustering and (2) classify tweets with the topics based on an existing theory in service quality. To show the applicability of our method, we selected healthcare as our target area and picked the NHS of U.K. for measuring the service quality of public policy. We collected tweets about NHS for about 4 years and created dictionaries related to the domain of healthcare with user reviews on hospitals and general practitioners in U.K. We applied the suggested methodology to track social perceptions and compared the applicability among different methods.

Keywords: Social perceptions; SERVQUAL; Healthcare; NHS; Sentiment analysis; Topic modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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