How do economic incentives and regulatory factors influence adoption of cardiac technologies? Result from the TECH project

The TECH research network collected patient-level data on three procedures for treatment of heart attack patients for seventeen countries over an eighteen year period to examine the impact of economic and institutional factors on technology adoption. Specific institutional factors are shown to be important to the up-take of these technologies. The impact of income and institutional characteristics on the utilization rates of these procedures diminishes over time.