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But Doctor, It's My Hip!: The Fate of Failed Medical Devices
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 5, Number 2, June 1995
- pp. 113-131
- 10.1353/ken.0.0094
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It is difficult to study failed medical devices because of a lack of data. Routine device retrieval and analysis (DRA) is essential to performance evaluation, which, in turn, is essential to good patient care. We argue for the development of a national DRA program and medical device database and discuss the major ethical and policy issues associated with this proposal.