hospitals, intermediaries and patients, the study examines the key characteristics and constraints of India-Pakistan trade in …

, 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 …

Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients … hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … that leads to more complex admissions; (ii) hospital inefficiency; and (iii) lack of rehabilitation, social, and long …

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 … cases, the innovation had significant impacts on the quality of lives of the patients and, in case of caregivers, on both …