Clinicians' contributions to the development of coronary artery stents: a qualitative study of transformative device innovation.

Medical device innovation remains poorly understood, and policymakers disagree over how to incentivize early development. We sought to elucidate the components of transformative health care innovation by conducting an in-depth case study of development of a key medical device: coronary artery stents...

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Main Authors: Aaron S Kesselheim, Shuai Xu, Jerry Avorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3922977?pdf=render