longevity of all hospital patients, i.e. patients with a variety of medical conditions. The analysis is based on data on over … life expectancy of WA hospital patients by almost 3 months between 2000 and 2007, controlling for the patient's age, sex … of WA hospital patients, but the implied increase may be smaller-about 2 months. In either case, therapeutic procedure …

, 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 …

patient innovation, whereby patients and/or caregivers proactively develop and diffuse new products and services that provide …

Focus and Scope of this Thesis -- Introduction -- Conceptual Foundations: The Phenomenon of Patients and Caregivers as … User Innovators -- Are Patients and Caregivers the Better Innovators? The Case of Medical Smartphone Applications …Moritz Göldner analyzes the unexplored phenomenon of patients and caregivers as innovators with respect to their own …