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Device Approval

"Device Approval" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Process that is gone through in order for a device to receive approval by a government regulatory agency. This includes any required preclinical or clinical testing, review, submission, and evaluation of the applications and test results, and post-marketing surveillance. It is not restricted to FDA.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Device Approval" by people in this website by year, and whether "Device Approval" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2010
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