Monitoring medical devices: Missed warning signs within existing data

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 318, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 327-328

  Ibrahim, Andrew M ^a   Dimick, Justin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE RECALL; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GASTROPLASTY; HUMAN; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; UNITED STATES;

EQUIPMENT SAFETY; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING; REOPERATION; SAFETY-BASED MEDICAL DEVICE WITHDRAWALS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 85027573382     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.6584     Document Type: Short Survey

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