Martina, Maria Raffaella, Park, Chloe, Alastruey, Jordi, Bruno, Rosa Maria, Climie, Rachel, Dogan, Soner, Tuna, Bilge Guvenc, Jerončić, Ana, Manouchehri, Marjan, Panayiotou, Andrie G., and others. (2024) Medical device regulation in vascular ageing assessment: a VascAgeNet survey exploring knowledge and perception. Expert Review of Medical Devices, 21 (4). pp. 335-347. ISSN 1745-2422. (doi:10.1080/17434440.2024.2334931) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:105798)
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Abstract
Background
Regulation has a key role for medical devices throughout their lifecycle aiming to guarantee effectiveness and safety for users. Requirements of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (MDR) have an impact on novel and previously approved systems. Identification of key stakeholders’ needs can support effective implementation of MDR improving the translation to clinical practice of vascular ageing assessment. The aim of this work is to explore knowledge and perception of medical device regulatory framework in vascular ageing field.
Research design and methods
A survey was developed within VascAgeNet and distributed in the community by means of the EUSurvey platform.
Results
Results were derived from 94 participants (27% clinicians, 62% researchers, 11% companies) and evidenced mostly a fair knowledge of MDR (despite self-judged as poor by 51%). Safety (83%), validation (56%), risk management (50%) were considered relevant and associated with the regulatory process. Structured support and regulatory procedures connected with medical devices in daily practice at the institutional level are lacking (only 33% report availability of a regulatory department).
Conclusions
Regulation was recognized relevant by the VascAgeNet community and specific support and training in medical device regulatory science was considered important. A direct link with the regulatory sector is not yet easily available.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/17434440.2024.2334931 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | Medical device; regulation;vascular ageing; MDR; survey |
| Subjects: |
R Medicine R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Medway School of Pharmacy |
| Funders: | European Cooperation in Science and Technology (https://ror.org/01bstzn19) |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
| Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2024 14:33 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 13:11 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/105798 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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