title: Quality assurance for implants in bone surgery.
abstract: Quality assurance and, wherever possible, the improvement of implants are of very great importance on both health and economic grounds. The technical risk to the patient--who is the final recipient of the implant--must be minimal. This paper describes the various stages in quality assurance during the manufacture of osteosynthesis implants and hip prostheses.
mesh_terms: D000077:Acetabulum; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D019736:Prostheses and Implants / Q000592:standards*