, companies and scholars have paid little attention to the end users of medical devices: patients. We focus on the innovative … behavior of patients and their relatives, their motivations, and their contributions to improving the quality of their own and … ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in …

exploit within-hospital quasi-random assignment of patients to senior doctors following a heart attack to estimate the … reassigning doctors within-hospital to patients on the basis of their comparative ability to treat each patient type. These …There is widespread and unexplained variation in the outcomes of similar patients across place and providers in all …

Prior research has shown that some patients and caregivers such as relatives are innovating in relation to their unmet … and subsequently commercialized. We analyze cases of patients and their caregivers becoming user entrepreneurs - persons … their product to market. Our findings show that these innovation opportunities were mostly recognized during time …