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Top Three Reasons Why Your Medical Device Needs a Clinical Trial

Advarra

Regulations for research involving devices, in vitro diagnostics (IVDs), and digital therapeutics differ from those governing pharmaceutical development. The greater the risk, the more likely a series of trials for market clearance or approval will be required. In other words, what are the risks and benefits of the product?

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A Whole Different Kind of Research Rodeo: ACRP Marks Five Years of Medical Device Certification

ACRP blog

Medical device trials, however, are typically smaller in scale and require fewer phases [than drug trials]. The information from this site goes on to describe how medical device studies are divided into three different classes, rather than into the familiar phases of drug studies.