The general shortage of evidence regarding benefits and harms of medical devices has
been highlighted following the serious safety concerns with metal-on-metal hip …

Patient registries are valuable tools helping to address significant challenges in research,
care, and policy. Registries, well embedded in many fields of medicine and public health …

Purpose Results of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used to
inform healthcare decision-making. Research has shown that response shift can impact …

Background In early 2012, a number of serious events in the implant area raised public
awareness and started a discussion on safety issues and monitoring medical devices in …

Passive surveillance has helped answer questions about the performance of certain
devices. In 2012, Hauser et al23 used MAUDE to assess the presence and modes of deaths …

Background Obtaining the patient's view about the outcome of care is an essential
component of patient-centered care. Many patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments for …

Background Through a national policy agreement, over 167 million Euros will be invested in
the Swedish National Quality Registries (NQRs) between 2012 and 2016. One of the policy …

Introduction: As the benefit of medical device registries (MDRs) depends on their content
and quality, it is important to ensure that MDRs have a robust and adequate structure to fulfill …

Background: Large-scale data collection is an increasingly prominent and influential feature
of efforts to improve healthcare delivery, yet securing the involvement of clinical centres and …

This paper illustrates an automatic document processing system for the extraction of data
contained in medical laboratory results printed on paper. The final goal of the research is to …