An article in Health Affairs lays out some principals to consider in regard to diffusion of health care innovations.
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A study in the journal Health Services Research finds that drug-eluting stents were taken up by cardiologists faster in markets in which there was greater competition among cardiologists, but hospital market structure appeared to have little impact on diffusion rates.
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