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The diffusion of two technologies for renal stone treatments across Europe; by Stefan Kirchberger...[et al.], and based on country reports from all EC member states and Sweden, Factors affecting the diffusion of three kinds of innovative medical technology in European Community countries and Sweden ; by Barbara Stocking

Author:

King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Stocking, Barbara, Kamper-Jorgensen, Finn, Kirchberger, Stefan, Mays, Nicholas, Durieux, Pierre, and Viens-Bitker, Cathrine

Publication date:

1991

Abstract:

Medical technology, defined broadly to include drugs, procedures and equipment used singly or in combination, has been of enormous benefit in improving the quality of health care. It has, however, raised many issues about how society can afford to pay for these often expensive developments and about associated ethical problems ...