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Acceptance of Clinical Data to Support Medical Device Applications and Submissions: Frequently Asked Questions Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff February 2018

Final
Docket Number:
FDA-2013-N-0080
Issued by:
Guidance Issuing Office
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Center for Devices and Radiological Health

On February 21, 2018, FDA amended its regulations on the acceptance of data from clinical investigations for medical devices. Under the new rule, FDA is requiring that data submitted from clinical investigations conducted outside of the United States (OUS) intended to support an investigational device exemption (IDE) application, a premarket notification (510(k)) submission, a request for De Novo classification, a premarket approval (PMA) application, a humanitarian device exemption (HDE) application, or a product development protocol (PDP) application, be from investigations conducted in accordance with good clinical practice (GCP), which includes review and approval by an independent ethics committee (IEC) and informed consent from subjects. The GCP requirements in the final rule encompass both data quality and integrity and ethical standards for device clinical investigations.


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