Akron Children’s collaborates with medical device manufacturers to design and conduct investigations intended to generate credible evidence of diagnostic and treatment value compared to current standards of care.
Occasionally, by contrast, such trials may result in findings that a newer, more expensive device, offers little or no clinical, safety, or efficiency advantages over existing technologies. This arms clinicians and administrators with valuable data when considering new equipment purchases.
At Akron Children's Rebecca D. Considine Research Institute, we view devoting resources to acquire medical device evaluation expertise as especially fertile territory.
