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Peer Adoption and Development of Health Innovations by Patients: National Representative Study of 6204 Citizens

Peer Adoption and Development of Health Innovations by Patients: National Representative Study of 6204 Citizens

Furthermore, the study by Oliveira and Canhão [10] identified successful cases of novel patient-developed solutions that made a significant impact on medical practice. Health benefits and social value of innovations can only be achieved when innovations diffuse—when they are adopted and used by other people. In national-level surveys, the fraction of diffused user innovations observed varied from 5% to 17%, with the most common diffusion pathway being peer-to-peer exchange [3,4,11].

Pedro Padua Oliveira, Leid Zejnilovic, Salomé Azevedo, Ana Maria Rodrigues, Helena Canhão

J Med Internet Res 2019;21(3):e11726