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Providing Information about Pediatric Uses of Medical Devices: Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff

FinalCenter for Devices and Radiological Health05/01/2014

Description

Section 302 of Title III of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), created Section 515A of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 360e-1). Section 515A requires submitters to FDA of premarket approval applications (PMAs), supplements to PMAs, humanitarian device exemptions (HDEs), and product development protocols (PDPs) for new devices to include readily available information about pediatric subpopulations that suffer from a disease or condition that the device is intended to treat, diagnose, or cure.

Scope & Applicability

Product Classes

1
Medical Devices

Medical devices intended for human use; Approved or cleared medical devices

Stakeholders

2
Device manufacturers

participate in the ASCA Pilot

Applicant

Entity submitting development data and knowledge; Entity performing the work process for change

Regulatory Context

Attributes

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Prevalence

Estimated number of people with a disease, used to determine clinical investigation enrollment.

Incidence

A metric used in calculating population estimates for designations.

Disease prevalence

Required data for pediatric population estimates

Readily available information

The type of pediatric use information required for submissions

Related CFR Sections (2)

See Also (8)

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