Medical technology in Canada, Germany, and the United States: an update

Major medical technology is internationally mobile and rapidly diffusing. This study compares the proliferation of six complex medical technologies in Canada and Germany with that in the United States, the traditional high-tech leader. The technologies--open-heart surgery, cardiac catheterization, o...

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Published in:Health Affairs 1994, Vol.13 (4), p.113-117
Main Author: Rublee, D A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Angina pectoris
Angioplasty
Bone marrow
Canada
Cardiac catheterization
Cardiac Surgical Procedures - statistics & numerical data
Comparative analysis
Diffusion of Innovation
Estimates
Germany
Health care expenditures
Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data
Heart surgery
High technology
Hospital costs
Humans
International comparisons
Intubation
Lithotripsy
Lithotripsy - statistics & numerical data
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging - statistics & numerical data
Medical equipment
Medical Laboratory Science - statistics & numerical data
Medical sector
Medical technology
Patients
Physicians
Population
Radiation therapy
Shock waves
Stem cell transplantation
Technology
Trends
United States
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Summary:Major medical technology is internationally mobile and rapidly diffusing. This study compares the proliferation of six complex medical technologies in Canada and Germany with that in the United States, the traditional high-tech leader. The technologies--open-heart surgery, cardiac catheterization, organ transplantation, radiation therapy, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, and magnetic resonance imaging--are more prevalent in the United States, on a per capita basis, than in the other two countries. This was the case five years ago, too. The differences are large in some cases and small in others. Lithotriptors and imagers are growing annually at double-digit rates in all three countries.
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.13.4.113