Medical Device Regulation: Time to Improve Performance
Open Access
- 31 July 2012
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 9 (7), e1001277
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001277
Abstract
Sanket Dhruva and Rita Redberg comment on a research study evaluating the evidence regarding the performance of device regulatory systems. They argue that adequate funding and increased transparency are vital to future reform.Keywords
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