Technology type | n | Mean timeframe, years (SD) |
Non-surgical therapy | 14 | 9.07 (5.7) |
Diagnostic tests and imaging | 113 | 10.11 (6.0) |
Drugs (not prophylactic vaccines) | 75 | 10.31 (6.3) |
Therapeutic procedures | 31 | 10.45 (8.2) |
Organisational programmes | 25 | 10.48 (5.3) |
IT systems, eHealth and mHealth | 77 | 11.08 (5.5) |
Devices and biomaterials | 88 | 11.93 (6.8) |
Assistive devices | 3 | 12.33 (17.9) |
Other/unknown | 40 | 13.35 (7.2) |
Medical equipment | 36 | 13.53 (2.7) |
Regenerative medicine | 73 | 13.58 (7.4) |
Prophylactic vaccines | 13 | 14.00 (6.3) |
Population programmes | 19 | 14.53 (5.9) |
Total | 607 | 11.59 (6.6) |
*p<0.002.
IT, information technology; eHealth, electronic health; mHealth, mobile health.