Investigating the effect of online and offline reputation on the provision of online counseling services: A case study of the Internet hospitals in China

ABSTRACT: The sustainable development of Internet hospitals and e-health platforms relies on the participation of patients and physicians, especially on the provision of health counseling services by physicians. The objective of our study is to explore the factors motivating Chinese physicians to provide online health counseling services from the perspectives of their online and offline reputation. We collect the data of 141029 physicians from 6173 offline hospitals located in 350 cities in China. Based on the reputation theory and previous studies, we incorporate patients’ feedback as physicians’ online reputation and incorporate physicians’ offline professional status as physicians’ offline reputation. Results show that physicians’ online reputation significantly and positively influence their onl

SUBMITTER: Xu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9438379 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature