Certification and Standardization and Market Access of Medical Devices
A special issue of Standards (ISSN 2305-6703). This special issue belongs to the section "Drugs Standards".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2257
Special Issue Editors
2. Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, Tokyo 102-8160, Japan
Interests: global health; global burden of disease project; big data; health care financing & expenditures; evaluation of policy; programs and health system performance; organisation of health care markets; health economics; emerging markets
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Interests: ISO 9001, ISO 15189, ISO/IEC 17025, and ISO 13485 standards; risk-based thinking; CAPA and Pareto-based thinking; biostatistics; quality control techniques in the medical laboratory include selection, verification, validation, internal quality control, external quality assessment/proficiency testing, measurement uncertainty, and reference intervals of results; metrology principles including "Error Approach" (total analytical error and allowable total error) and "Uncertainty Approach" (measurement uncertainty and target uncertainty); sampling techniques; statistical process control; capability indexes and sigma-metrics; CLSI protocols appliance including EP15, EP5, EP21, EP6, EP7, EP12, EP2, EP18, EP23, and EP28
Interests: medical device; epidemiology; pediatrics; immunology; medical informatics
Interests: molecular biology, skin; medical devices; cosmetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
MDPI Standards Journal invites you to submit to our new thematic series on ‘Certification and Standardization and Market Access of Medical Devices’.
Health Econometric, Certification, and Standardization research for medical devices continues to lag behind pharmaceuticals across the Globe. Regulatory and reimbursement demands for medical devices are triggering demand for high-quality data, and evidence-based policies that are likely to deliver better quality standards in medical devices. FDA published a few guidance documents pointing out the use of Real-World Evidence (RWE) to support regulatory decision-making referring to pharmaceuticals and medical devices alike. RWE is increasingly disseminated and applied for both synthetic medicines and biologicals. Yet, there are peculiarities in how to generate RWE, tailored for medical devices. Vice versa this process gives impetus to potential barriers toward the broader adoption and exploitation of RWE for medical devices. Furthermore, there are heterogeneous methodological issues associated with the conduct of outcomes research under the umbrella of medical devices, with products ranging from diagnostics to implantable devices, making it difficult to develop a unifying set of standards for the industry. We believe that rapidly growing need to explore the opportunities and challenges of a wide range of health outcomes research in medical devices. These unmet needs in medical care may positively influence accessibility, affordability, and quality of medical devices for ordinary citizens and patients.
Within the current Special Issue of Standards, we invite you to submit high-quality original research articles or reviews presenting novel findings and filling contemporary knowledge gaps. Preference will be given to contributions using longitudinal data such as electronic health records, insurance claims, and health econometric methods. All manuscripts will undergo the journal’s normal peer review process and be subject to an article-processing charge. Manuscripts should be formatted according to our submission guidelines and submitted via the MDPI online submission system. In the submission system please make sure that the correct collection title is chosen from the drop-down list on the 'details' tab. Please also indicate clearly in the covering letter that the manuscript is to be considered for this collection. This series is currently open to new submissions. Manuscripts should be submitted by 31 December 2023.
Prof. Dr. Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic
Dr. Paulo Pereira
Dr. Asiyah Lin
Dr. Diego Rua
Guest Editors
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