Guest Editorial: New Medical Device Regulation in Europe: A Collaborative Effort of Stakeholders to Improve Patient Safety.

Thienpont, Emmanuel;Quaglio, Gianluca;Karapiperis, Theodoros;Kjaersgaard-Andersen, Per
(2020) Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research — Vol. 478, n° 5, p. 928-930 (2020)

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  • Thienpont, EmmanuelUCLouvain
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  • Quaglio, Gianluca
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  • Karapiperis, Theodoros
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  • Kjaersgaard-Andersen, Per
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A Collaborative Effort for Quality In response to recent reports in the lay media and scientific journals about complications associated with joint arthroplasties and other medical devices [3, 12, 13], the Presidents of the European Knee Society (EKS) and the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) met with stakeholders in Brussels, Belgium in April 2019 [7] to discuss the European Union’s (EU) new Medical Device Regulation (Regulation 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council 2017/745 of 5 April 2017 [9] concerning medical devices, OJ No L 117/1 of 2017-05-05). [...]
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Thienpont, E., Quaglio, G., Karapiperis, T., & Kjaersgaard-Andersen, P. (2020). Guest Editorial: New Medical Device Regulation in Europe: A Collaborative Effort of Stakeholders to Improve Patient Safety. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 478(5), 928-930. https://doi.org/10.1097/CORR.0000000000001154 (Original work published 2020)