TY - JOUR
T1 - Lifecycle evidence requirements for high-risk implantable medical devices
T2 - a European perspective
AU - Tarricone, Rosanna
AU - Ciani, Oriana
AU - Torbica, Aleksandra
AU - Brouwer, W.B.F.
AU - Chaloutsos, Georges
AU - Drummond, Mike
AU - Martelli, Nicolas
AU - Persson, Ulf
AU - Leidl, Reiner
AU - Levin, Les
AU - Sampietro-Colom, L
AU - Taylor, Rod S.
N1 - © 2020 The Author(s)
PY - 2020/10/23
Y1 - 2020/10/23
N2 - Introduction
The new European Union (EU) Regulations on medical devices and on in vitro diagnostics provide manufacturers and Notified Bodies with new tools to improve pre-market and post-market clinical evidence generation especially for high-risk products but fail to indicate what type of clinical evidence is appropriate at each stage of the whole lifecycle of medical devices. In this paper we address: i) the appropriate level and timing of clinical evidence throughout the lifecycle of high-risk implantable medical devices; and ii) how the clinical evidence generation ecosystem could be adapted to optimize patient access.
Areas covered
The European regulatory and health technology assessment (HTA) contexts are reviewed, in relation to the lifecycle of high-risk medical devices and clinical evidence generation recommended by international network or endorsed by regulatory and HTA agencies in different jurisdictions.
Expert opinion
Four stages are relevant for clinical evidence generation: i) pre-clinical, pre-market; ii) clinical, pre-market; iii) diffusion, post-market; and iv) obsolescence & replacement, post-market. Each stage has its own evaluation needs and specific studies are recommended to generate the appropriate evidence. Effective lifecycle planning requires anticipation of what evidence will be needed at each stage.
AB - Introduction
The new European Union (EU) Regulations on medical devices and on in vitro diagnostics provide manufacturers and Notified Bodies with new tools to improve pre-market and post-market clinical evidence generation especially for high-risk products but fail to indicate what type of clinical evidence is appropriate at each stage of the whole lifecycle of medical devices. In this paper we address: i) the appropriate level and timing of clinical evidence throughout the lifecycle of high-risk implantable medical devices; and ii) how the clinical evidence generation ecosystem could be adapted to optimize patient access.
Areas covered
The European regulatory and health technology assessment (HTA) contexts are reviewed, in relation to the lifecycle of high-risk medical devices and clinical evidence generation recommended by international network or endorsed by regulatory and HTA agencies in different jurisdictions.
Expert opinion
Four stages are relevant for clinical evidence generation: i) pre-clinical, pre-market; ii) clinical, pre-market; iii) diffusion, post-market; and iv) obsolescence & replacement, post-market. Each stage has its own evaluation needs and specific studies are recommended to generate the appropriate evidence. Effective lifecycle planning requires anticipation of what evidence will be needed at each stage.
U2 - 10.1080/17434440.2020.1825074
DO - 10.1080/17434440.2020.1825074
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 993
EP - 1006
JO - Expert Review of Medical Devices
JF - Expert Review of Medical Devices
IS - 10
ER -