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Medical devices and Europe: Actions
Drug-device combinations: EMA's consultation on quality requirements is an opportunity to strengthen patient safety (August 2019)

Paris, 30 August 2019

Drug-device combinations play a major role in preventing medication errors. The public consultation relating to the draft Guideline for the quality requirements for drug-device combinations is an opportunity for EMA to significantly strengthen its expertise in these health products and patient safety. Prescrire offers a series of recommendations mainly aimed at protecting children, elderly patients, and patients undergoing high-risk hospital care.

> Click here to download Prescrire's response (pdf, 146 Ko)
 

©Prescrire August 2019

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