Calls for Transparency Follow Rise in UK Device Recalls

A substantial increase in the number of field safety notices issued by UK devicemakers in the last five years is leading to calls for greater transparency and more clinical data for devices. The number of field safety notices, issued by a manufacturer when a device is recalled for technical or clinical reasons, increased by 1,220 percent over the five-year period — from 62 in 2006 to 757 in 2010, according to a May 15 study by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford.
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