Deck 13: Technology Transfer in Health Care

Question 1

Technological advances take place through the process of __________________.

Answer 1

innovation

Question 2

In the United States, health research takes place in which of the following?

A) Hospitals
B) National Institutes of Health
C) Universities
D) National Science Foundation
E)Private industry

Answer 2

B, C, D, E

Question 3

Without patent protection, innovations would be greatly slowed unless governments were to fund product development as well as basic research processes.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which country has been the location of three very profitable pharmaceutical companies and introduced patent protection for drugs only in 1977?

A) United States
B) Switzerland
C) Canada
D) Germany

Question 5

In multi-country studies of the rate with which advanced technology treatments for heart attack were adopted, higher rates of diffusion were found in countries with fee-for-service reimbursement systems. Which of the following countries have adopted a fee-for-service system?

A) Japan
B) Korea
C) United States
D) Australia
E)France

Question 6

The United States was found to be more productively efficient than Germany in the treatment of which of the following medical conditions?

A) Diabetes
B) Gallstones
C) Breast cancer
D) Lung cancer

Question 7

At least until the mid-1980s, both Medicare and the prevalent indemnity form of private insurance encouraged a bias toward cost-increasing and quality-increasing innovation.

Question 8

Studies show that the rate of product development is diminished in firms that have more contact with academic institution, which is particularly true with products that are radically new rather than incrementally changed.

Question 9

The problem of ____________________is particularly serious in the pharmaceutical industry where development costs are very large compared to production costs.

Question 10

By 1992, what percentage of cholecystectomies performed in the United States were laparoscopic?

A) 60%
B) 70%
C) 80%
D) 90%