The authors have no financial support from any company producing the evaluated devices and do not have any form of conflict of interests.
The relationship can be used to estimate the dn/dT value of a given polymer using its α value, which is widely available and can be easily measured using TMA and other conventional equipment, and the estimated dn/dT value is useful for developing polymers and evaluating device performance in optical waveguide applications.
7 Recent concerns over hip resurfacing techniques 8 and breast implants 9 have raised serious questions about how medical devices are evaluated, and there has been considerable interest in applying the IDEAL framework to this problem, since many difficulties in evaluating device innovation mirror those in surgery innovation.
Following device implantation, conventional care requires patients to regularly attend calendar-based in-clinic follow-up (FU) visits to monitor and optimize device function, to evaluate device diagnostics, and to assess patient health status.
For devices, six of the eight postapproval studies were intended to evaluate device safety, and two were intended to monitor if the effectiveness of the therapy was attenuated over time.
Assistive technology is advancing apace, with Manchester University's dementia platform evaluating devices, such as watches with accelerometers to measure movement, to establish value for money.
This paper introduces the idea of predicting 'designer error' by evaluating devices using Human Error Identification HEII) techniques.
In order to evaluate device performance, both laboratory and field tests were carried out.
In this study, we implanted the MVAD Pump in an ovine model to evaluate device hemocomaptiblity, biocompatibility, performance, and safety.
Comparison of the estimated interface position and the cell response can be used to evaluate device precision (Fig. 3).
