The objective of this paper is to identify selected forces of the decrease in the number of avoidable deaths from ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of intracardiac catheter facilities,which are an important...

Objective: Heart failure (HF) is a prevalent condition affecting millions of individuals worldwide. Continuous monitoring and targeted behavioral interventions have been shown to improve health status and quality of life for HF patients. Digital therapeutics offer the possibility to make more...

Background: Recently, enormous efforts to measure the quality of health care have been made (i.e. AHRQ, OECD) in order to get information about ways to improve the quality of health care. However this area of research is still in an early stage of development and more research has to be done....