Rublee D A
American Medical Association, Chicago.
Health Aff (Millwood). 1994 Fall;13(4):113-7. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.13.4.113.
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.
主要医疗技术在国际上具有流动性且传播迅速。本研究将六种复杂医疗技术在加拿大和德国的普及情况与传统高科技领先国家美国进行了比较。这些技术——心脏直视手术、心导管插入术、器官移植、放射治疗、体外冲击波碎石术和磁共振成像——在美国的人均普及程度高于其他两个国家。五年前也是如此。在某些情况下差异很大，在其他情况下则很小。碎石机和成像设备在这三个国家每年都以两位数的速度增长。
