, 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 …

waiting times as a result of the merger is larger if the hospitals are more profit-oriented. This result is arguably confirmed … crucially rely on a legal status that can reasonably be linked to the degree of profit-orientation. Whereas hospital mergers …We analyse - theoretically and empirically - the effect of hospital mergers on waiting times in healthcare markets …

This paper examines the impact of changes in public long-term care spending on the use of public hospitals among the …) visits made by patients aged 65 and above, explaining between a quarter and a half of the growth in ED use among this … inpatient or outpatient hospital use, and consequently little impact on overall public hospital costs. These results suggest …