Exploring the Online Doctor-Patient Interaction on Patient Satisfaction Based on Text Mining and Empirical Analysis

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Highlights:

• We combined a text mining and econometrics analysis technology to explore the mechanism of doctor-patient interaction in an online health community.

• Patient activeness as an antecedent factor could enhance the social support from a doctor, which indirectly affects patient satisfaction.

• Both the doctor's informational and emotional support plays a positive role for doctor-patient relationship.

• Patient disease severity plays an important role between doctor's social support and patient satisfaction.

摘要

•We combined a text mining and econometrics analysis technology to explore the mechanism of doctor-patient interaction in an online health community.•Patient activeness as an antecedent factor could enhance the social support from a doctor, which indirectly affects patient satisfaction.•Both the doctor's informational and emotional support plays a positive role for doctor-patient relationship.•Patient disease severity plays an important role between doctor's social support and patient satisfaction.

论文关键词:Online doctor-patient interaction,text mining and econometrics,informational support,emotional support

论文评审过程:Received 27 November 2019, Revised 28 February 2020, Accepted 20 March 2020, Available online 25 April 2020, Version of Record 25 April 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102253