Additional peculiarities of medical devices that should be considered in their ...

• Autor(es): Isa C.T. Santos ; João Manuel R. S. Tavares
• Data: 2013
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/66648
• Origem: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Assunto(s): Ciências Tecnológicas
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

Medical devices are peculiar products: their definition varies from country to country, they are used to treat diseases, and their different from pharmaceuticals. In 2012, we began to describe the complex and demanding environment of the medical device industry. In this paper, our previous research is extended with additional peculiarities of medical devices such as recall, pricing, and adoption factors.