: Wolfgang Ecker, Gerold Labek, Tarquin Mittermayr, Brigitte Raffeiner, Michael Ring, Bernhard Schwart
: Clinical Evaluation and Investigation of Medical Devices under the new EU-Regulation
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: 9783751929288
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"The concept of clinical evaluation and the framework for clinical investigations have been significantly enforced within the new EU-Medical Device Regulation (MDR). This book provides in-depth and practice-oriented guidance on the systematic identification and generation of clinical data through clinical investigations and other relevant sources. It addresses the needs of all stakeholders, be it manufacturers, notified bodies or competent authorities, when they have to plan, perform or assess clinical evaluations and investigations for medical devices on the way to conformity assessment and CE marking. It is a valuable tool of qualification for clinicians and related experts when preparing for a role of a clinical evaluator in the field, either when serving any of the stakeholders or when trying to make their own involvement stand out in start-ups, spin-offs or other development projects or in counselling services." Dr. Tom Melvin, Co-Chair, Clinical Investigation and Evaluation Working Group

Hon (FH) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ecker MD, graduated at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, has accomplished his medical training as GP in various Viennese hospitals. He has served the Austrian Health Ministry and the EU Medical Device Sector for 30 years. He has been member of various expert groups at EU level, i.a. as Chair of the EU Working Group on Clinical Investigation and Evaluation (CIE) and as an EU representative in GHTF Study Group 5 on Clinical Evidence. As a member of the EU Council Working Group on Medical Devices, he has helped shaping the new EU Regulations on Medical Devices and IVDs. He is giving lectures and training seminars on these new Regulations at various Universities of Applied Sciences in Austria and at Health Technology Clusters.

1. Clinical Evaluation


1.1. Introduction


Both in the old and new EU regulatory system for medical devices (MD), the manufacturer has to demonstrate safety and performance of MDs not only bytechnical and preclinical evaluation but also byclinical evaluation on the basis of sufficient and relevant clinical data.

One of the main challenges for clinical evaluators is to adequately reflectthe complex character of the clinical evaluation, ranging from regulatory, organizational, technological to clinical aspects. Subsequently, the expectations on the documentation of the clinical evaluation are manifold and in large parts related to the perspective of evaluators serving manufacturers or third parties (National Competent Authorities, Notified Bodies, Public…). This complexity is additionally increased since MDR is explicitly placing clinical evaluation as anactive systematic life cycle process under the manufacturer's mandatory QMS.

From aregulatory perspective: In order to assure that the expectations, claims and requirements concerning clinical safety and effectiveness are fulfilled in the intended target population(s) and indications, the manufacturer mustgenerate, identify, appraise, analyse, evaluate, document and update sufficient and methodologically valid clinical data over the life-cycle of the MD (including PMCF1) and demonstrate this as theclinical evidence in conjunction with theclinical evaluation report (CER), following a properprocess of clinical evaluation.

From anorganizational perspective: The improvement of the clinical evaluation (CEV) of MDs has beenone of the main target areas of the new medical device regulation (MDR). MDR is explicitly placing clinical evaluation as anactive systematic life cycle process under the manufacturer's mandatory QMS. Clinical evaluation is now moreclosely integrated into the systemic context of the new regulation, especially with regard to its connections to QMS, PMS, risk management, manufacturer’s obligations (Art. 10), demonstration of conformity with the general requirements for safety and performance (Annex I), technical documentation (Annexes II and III), tasks and competencies of notified bodies (Annex VII) and to conformity assessment (Annexes IX-XI2).

This also implies that the interconnections to other processes have to be established and be continuously evaluated. This integration into the quality management system requires that the responsible persons involved are adequately qualified3 - a respective rationale also needs to be provided if (parts of) the process is outsourced. These aspects can be seen as the organizational framework for the activities related to the clinical evaluation.

From atechnological perspective it is expected that the device description within the clinical evaluation report4 correctly identifies the current configuration of the medical device, including (but not limited to) the name, model, sizes, variants, components of the device (including soft