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Medical Devices: a diverse sector
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Medical Device Regulation Proposal -
Postmarket Surveillance
″ Proportionate to the risk class and the type of device, manufacturers …
shall institute and keep up to date a systematic procedure to collect
and review experience gained from their devices placed on the market
… and to apply any necessary corrective action, hereinafter referred to
as ‘post-market surveillance plan’.
• “Post-market clinical follow-up, … a continuous process to update the
clinical evaluation referred to in Article 49 and Part A of this Annex and
shall be part of the manufacturer's post-market surveillance plan… the
manufacturer shall proactively collect and evaluate clinical data from
the use in or on humans of a device which is authorised to bear the CE
marking, within its intended purpose … with the aim of confirming the
safety and performance throughout …”
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Medical Device Regulation Proposal -
Postmarket Clinical Follow-up
″ … PMCF shall be performed pursuant to a
documented method laid down in a PMCF plan …
″ specify general methods and procedures, such as
gathering of clinical experience gained, feedback from
users, screening of scientific literature and of other
sources of clinical data …
″ The notified body shall periodically, at least once
every 12 months, carry out appropriate audits and
assessments to make sure that the manufacturer
applies the approved quality management system
and the post-market surveillance plan.”
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PMCF - Vigilance
″ … European system for the notification and
evaluation of incidents and field safety corrective
actions …
• Advantage
►Existing company system
►Low additional cost
• Challenges
►Reactive
►Issues late in the game
(1) MEDDEV 2.12-1 rev 8
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PMCF - Literature review
″ The process of reading, analyzing, evaluating, and
summarizing scholarly materials about a specific topic.”
• Options
►Review relevant sources at regular intervals, e.g. PubMed
►Conferences
►Journal alerting Services
• Advantage
►Relatively cheap
►Access to data world wide
• Challenges
►Reactive
►Data typically limited and heterogeneous
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PMCF - Studies
• Options
►Non-interventional – registries
″ A collection of clinical data where all subjects receive
the standard hospital treatment and have a parameter
of interest in common
►Interventional – RCT
″ Clinical study where participants receive treatment's or
test's different from standard practice because of study
participation. Such treatment may concern
randomization.
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PMCF – Registry
• Options – several
►Paper/ EDC forms
►Single/ multi center
►…
• Advantages
►Value for money
►Low site threshold
►…
• Challenges
►No efficacy/ added value data
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PMCF – Interventional Study
• Options
►Small scale single arm
►RCT
• Advantages
►Efficacy and/ or added value
►RCT is gold standard
• Challenges
►Not daily practice
►Huge investment
►Blinding
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Postmarket Surveillance -
Conclusion
• PMS under new MDR
►More stringent, and controlled
• Various options
►Standard company processes
►Literature review
►Registries
►Randomised Controlled Studies
►…
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Applied Clinical Services BV
• Co-founded by Annet Muetstege
• Mission
► To contribute to better patient outcomes in health care by partnering with medical
device industry and ensuring that product safety & efficacy claims are supported by
adequate clinical evidence in the most cost-effective manner
• Core services
►Strategic Clinical Evidence Planning
What, where, when, how
►Clinical evidence communication
Reports, abstracts, M&S material and training
►Clinical project management
Project design, progress, and (co-)monitoring