1. Quantification of US Food and Drug Administration Premarket Approval Statements for High-Risk Medical Devices With Pediatric Age Indications
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Stefano E. Rensi, Samuel J. Lee, Lauren Cho, Eyal Klang, James Wall, and Benjamin S. Glicksberg
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Medical device ,Adolescent ,Child age ,Guidelines as Topic ,Adolescent age ,Pediatrics ,Food and drug administration ,Lag time ,Premarket Approval ,Device Approval ,Medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Original Investigation ,business.industry ,United States Food and Drug Administration ,Research ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,Pediatric age ,General Medicine ,United States ,Online Only ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Equipment and Supplies ,Family medicine ,Child, Preschool ,Female ,business ,Pediatric population - Abstract
Key Points Question Can a database compiled from premarket approval statements for high-risk medical devices be used to characterize pediatric age indications as well as device types and specialties represented? Findings In this cross-sectional study including 297 premarket approval (PMA) documents for 149 unique devices, 102 devices (68%) contained a pediatric age indication that predominantly consisted of adolescent age (12 years to 21 years) indications. Meaning In this cross-sectional study quantifying and characterizing PMA documents, a gap was found in availability of pediatric medical devices, suggesting that most devices were developed for the adolescent pediatric population., Importance Medical device companies submit premarket approval (PMA) statements to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of the highest-risk class of devices. Devices indicated for the pediatric population that use the PMA pathway have not been well characterized or analyzed. Objective To identify and characterize high-risk devices with pediatric age indications derived from PMA statements. Design, Setting, and Participants In this cross-sectional study of PMA statements, those statements containing the words indicated or intended for medical devices listed in the FDA PMA database as of February 2020 were retrieved. Age indications were manually annotated in these approval statements via PubAnnotation. Based on the PMA identification from the PMA statements, device metadata including product codes, regulation numbers, advisory panels, and approval dates were queried. Main Outcomes and Measures The main outcome was discernment of the distribution of devices indicated for the pediatric population (neonate, infant, child, and adolescent). Secondary measures included outlining the clinical specialties, device types, and lag time between the initial approval date and the first date of an approval statement with a pediatric indication for generic device categories. Results A total of 297 documents for 149 unique devices were analyzed. Based on the manual age annotations, 102 devices with a pediatric indication, 10 with a neonate age indication, 32 with an infant age indication, 60 with a child age indication, and 94 with an adolescent age indication were identified. For indications for patients from age 17 to 18 years, the number of devices available nearly doubled from 42 devices to 81 devices. Although more than half of the surveyed devices had a pediatric age indication, many were available only for a limited range of the pediatric population (age 18-21 years). For indications for patients from age 0 to 17 years, the mean (SD) number of clinical specialties at each age was 7.27 (1.4), and 12 clinical specialties were represented from ages 18 to 21 years. Conclusions and Relevance In this cross-sectional study on device PMA statements, a gap was identified in both quantity and diversity of high-risk devices indicated for the pediatric population. Because the current scarcity of pediatric devices may limit therapeutic possibilities for children, this study represents a step toward quantifying this scarcity and identifying clinical specialties with the greatest need for pediatric device innovation and may help inform future device development efforts., This cross-sectional study identifies and characterizes high-risk devices with pediatric age indications derived from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval statements.
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- 2021