Scientific Literature search and its importance’s in MEDDEV Rev 4 compliance
Clinical evaluation is a structured ongoing procedure to gather, appraise and analyse clinical data relavant to medical device. The aim of clinical evaluation is to assess whether the available clinical evidence is sufficient to verify compliance with relevant essential Requirements for safety and performance of the medical device.Literature search is a clear and methodologically sound plan for the identification, retrieval, selection, and appraisal and to lay weightage for the published data. It is commonly used strategy or a way of collecting evidence on a given research question, mainly for a Clinical Evaluation Report. The key stages in conducting a systematic review are scoping, screening, planning, eligibility and identification (of relavant ones). In scoping frame one or more research questions about the topic based on PICO (P- Population, I- Intervention, C- Control or Comparison, O- Outcome). Depending on the device the PI...