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Medical Devices and Biomaterials Parhology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Nir Kossovsky  and
Ram Kossowsky
Nir Kossovsky
Affiliation:
UCLA Medical Center
Ram Kossowsky
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Abstract

Through the postmortem examination, pathologists offer the ultimate clinico-pathologic assessment of the efficacy of medical care. Similarly, pathologists can offer a clinico-pathologic assessment of the efficacy of health care technology. Assessment by pathologists has diagnostic authority because it draws on the resources of the laboratories of surgical and necropsy pathology. In this essay we argue for enhancing the accuracy of medical device and biomaterials technology assessment by systematically collecting pathology-oriented data. We recommend the establishment of a pathology-based medical device registry to assess implantable medical device technology by accumulating reports routinely issued by pathology departments throughout the country. We further suggest the establishment of a university-based, industry-supported Medical Device and Biomaterials Pathology Institute to operate the registry, collect recovered, used health care devices, and generate definitive, pathology-based, primary data for he lth care technology assessment

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General Essays
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 319 - 323
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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